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We derive an on-shell diagram recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=7$ supergravity. The diagrams are evaluated in terms of Grassmannian integrals and momentum twistors, generalising previous results of Hodges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Connor Armstrong , Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

The fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes are investigated in the framework of light-front perturbation theory. It is demonstrated that, the factorization property of the fragmentation functions implies the recursion relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Christian A. Cruz-Santiago , Anna M. Stasto

We fabricate gravitino vertex interactions using as only input on-shell Yang-Mills amplitudes and the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye gauge theory / gravity relations. A useful result of this analysis is simpler tree-level Feynman rules for gravitino…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-19 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Oluf Tang Engelund

Recently, Bjerrum-Bohr, Damgaard, Feng and Sondergaard derived a set of new interesting quadratic identities of the Yang-Mills tree scattering amplitudes. Here we comment that these quadratic identities of YM amplitudes actually follow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 S. -H. Henry Tye , Yang Zhang

In this paper we study tree-level amplitudes from higher-dimensional operators, including $F^3$ operator of gauge theory, and $R^2$, $R^3$ operators of gravity, in the Cachazo-He-Yuan formulation. As a generalization of the reduced Pfaffian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Song He , Yong Zhang

In this paper, we have introduced a fundamentally different approach, based on a bottom-up methodology, to expand tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes into Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes and Bi-adjoint-scalar (BAS) amplitudes. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Chang Hu , Kang Zhou

Modern on-shell S-matrix methods may dramatically improve our understanding of perturbative quantum gravity, but current foundations of on-shell techniques for General Relativity still rely on off-shell Feynman diagram analysis. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 David A. McGady , Laurentiu Rodina

In our recent works, a new approach for constructing tree amplitudes, based on exploiting soft behaviors, was proposed. In this paper, we extend this approach to effective theories for gluons which incorporate higher-derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Chang Hu

It has been recently conjectured that scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. In this paper we show some interesting connections between the tree-level amplituhedron and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

We show how to apply the BCFW recursion relation to Feynman loop integrals with the help of the Feynman-tree theorem. We deconstruct in this way all Feynman diagrams in terms of on-shell subamplitudes. Every cut originating from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis , C. M. Reyes

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We prove that all tree-level amplitudes in pure (super-)gravity can be expressed as term-wise, gauge-invariant double-copies of those of pure (super-)Yang-Mills obtained via BCFW recursion. These representations are far from unique: varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-07 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Kokkimidis Patatoukos , Michael Plesser , Yaqi Zhang

We extend the recently discovered phenomenon of hidden zeros to tree amplitudes for Yang-Mills (YM) and general relativity (GR) theories with higher-derivative interactions. This includes gluon amplitudes with a single insertion of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

We present on the use of on-shell recursion relations. These can be used not only for calculating tree amplitudes, including those with masses, but also to compute analytically the missing rational terms of one-loop QCD amplitudes. Combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Darren Forde

We propose a new integral formula for all tree-level scattering amplitudes of N=6 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory. It resembles the Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten formula for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory based on a twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yu-tin Huang , Sangmin Lee

In this note we study tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons under a natural deformation which in the large $z$ limit can be interpreted either as a $k$-hard-particle limit or as a $(n-k)$-soft-particle limit. When $k=2$ this becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Pablo Leon

We extract cubic interactions from the covariant equations of motion of Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and compute the corresponding amplitudes. These amplitudes are found to agree with earlier results obtained in the light-cone gauge. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Robin Guarini

On-shell methods offer an alternative definition of quantum field theory at tree-level, replacing Feynman diagrams with recursion relations and interaction vertices with a handful of seed scattering amplitudes. In this paper we determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-10 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

At tree-level, gravity amplitudes are obtainable directly from gauge theory amplitudes via the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye closed-open string relations. We explain how the unitarity method allows us to use these relations to obtain coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Zvi Bern , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar

We study the application of non-trivial relations between gravity tree amplitudes, the bonus relations, to all tree-level amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. We show that the relations can be used to simplify explicit formulae of supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Song He , Dhritiman Nandan , Congkao Wen