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Single-minus tree-level $n$-gluon scattering amplitudes are reconsidered. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexandru Lupsasca , David Skinner , Andrew Strominger , Kevin Weil

We review the structure of gauge theory scattering amplitudes at tree level and describe how a compact expression can be found which encodes all the tree-level amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 theory. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Drummond

Pasterski, Shao and Strominger have recently proposed that massless scattering amplitudes can be mapped to correlators on the celestial sphere at infinity via a Mellin transform. We apply this prescription to arbitrary $n$-point tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

We calculate the glueball-fermion hard-scattering amplitude from the dilaton-dilatino closed string scattering amplitude in type IIB superstring theory, in the framework of the gauge/string theory duality. We investigate its high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-25 Lucas Martin , Martin Parlanti , Martin Schvellinger

We compute in conventional dimensional regularisation the tree-level splitting amplitudes for a gluon parent which splits into four collinear partons. This is part of the universal infrared behaviour of the QCD scattering amplitudes at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Rayan Haindl , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Martin Michel

We use the AdS/CFT prescription of Alday and Maldacena \cite{am} to analyze gluon 6-point scattering amplitudes at strong coupling in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM. By cutting and gluing we obtain AdS 6-point amplitudes that contain extra boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Dumitru Astefanesei , Suguru Dobashi , Katsushi Ito , Horatiu Nastase

We prove that all tree-level $n$-point supergluon (scalar) amplitudes in AdS$_5$ can be recursively constructed, using factorization and flat-space limit. Our method is greatly facilitated by a natural R-symmetry basis for planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Qu Cao , Song He , Yichao Tang

We compute all $2\to5$ gluon scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory in the multi-Regge limit that is sensitive to the non-trivial ("long") Regge cut. We provide the amplitudes through four loops and to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu , Julian Miczajka

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We reformulate tree-level amplitudes in open superstring theory (type-I) in terms of stringy Tr$(\phi^3)$ amplitudes with various kinematical shifts in the "curve-integral" formulation: while the bosonic-string amplitude with $n$ pairs of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-05 Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Song He , Fan Zhu

We study three-gluon scattering amplitudes in global de Sitter spacetime, in the angular momentum basis of SO(1,4) symmetry representations. At the tree level, they are determined by the intertwiner integrals of harmonic one-forms on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

A simple recursive expansion algorithm for the integrals of tree level superstring five point amplitudes in a flat background is given which reduces the expansion to simple symbol(ic) manipulations. This approach can be used for instance to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Rutger H. Boels

We compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

The scattering amplitudes of string theory exhibit many extraordinary properties. But are they the unique mathematical objects to do so? Recently, it has been shown how the spectrum and amplitudes of open string theory follow directly from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Clifford Cheung , Aaron Hillman , Grant N. Remmen

The relationship between on-shell tree level scattering amplitudes of open and closed strings, discovered some time ago by Kawai, Lewellen and Tye, is used at field theory level (at $O(\alpha'^3)$) to establish a link between the general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr

We compute the disk amplitude of three closed strings in the pure spinor formalism. Among others, this amplitude probes tree-level gravitational interactions in the presence of Dp-branes. After disentangling holomorphic and anti-holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Andreas Bischof , Michael Haack , Stephan Stieberger

We derive fully covariant expressions for all two-point scattering amplitudes of two massless closed strings from a Dirichlet $p$-brane. This construction relies on the observation that there is a simple relation between these D-brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Mohammad R. Garousi , Robert C. Myers

We present tree-level $n$-particle on-shell scattering amplitudes of various brane theories with $16$ conserved supercharges. These include the world-volume theory of a probe D3-brane or D5-brane in 10D Minkowski spacetime as well as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Matthew Heydeman , John H. Schwarz , Congkao Wen

Recently, tree-level recursion relations for scattering amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills theory have been derived. In this note we propose a generalization of the recursion relations to tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek

In this article we consider n gluon color ordered, planar amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills at strong 't Hooft coupling. These amplitudes are approximated by classical surfaces in AdS_5 space. We compute the value of the amplitude for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Luis F. Alday , Juan Maldacena