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Recently, an extension of the BCFW on-shell recursion relation suitable to compute gauge invariant scattering amplitudes with off-shell particles has been presented for Yang-Mills theories with fermions. In particular, 4- and 5-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Mirko Serino

We consider the calculation of n-point multigluon tree amplitudes with a pair of massive fermions in QCD. We give the explicit transformation rules of this kind of massive fermion-pair amplitudes with respect to different reference momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jia-Hui Huang , Weijian Wang

The novel massive spinor-helicity formalism of Arkani-Hamed, Huang and Huang provides an elegant way to calculate scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics for arbitrary quark spin projections. In this note we compute two families of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 Alexander Ochirov

Both 3- and 4-point scattering amplitudes for spin-1 massless particles (gluons) and spin-2 massless particles (gravitons) are reviewed through self-contained step-by-step derivation. Gluon and graviton interactions are computed from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Abhilash Mathews

This paper investigates how tree-level amplitudes with massless quarks, gluons and/or massless scalars transforming under a single copy of the gauge group can be expressed in the context of the scattering equations as a sum over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Stefan Weinzierl

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

Recently a new recursion relation for tree-level gluon amplitudes in gauge theory has been discovered. We solve this recursion to obtain explicit formulas for the closed set of amplitudes with arbitrarily many positive and negative helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

In this letter we consider the collinear limit of gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory at strong coupling. We argue that in this limit scattering amplitudes map into correlators of twist fields in the two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

Beyond standard model (BSM) particles should be included in effective field theory in order to compute the scattering amplitudes involving these extra particles. We formulate an extension of Higgs effective field theory which contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ryo Nagai , Masaharu Tanabashi , Koji Tsumura , Yoshiki Uchida

Scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled with a pair of massive scalars, so-called massive scalar amplitudes, provide the simplest yet physically useful examples of massive amplitudes. In this paper we construct an S-matrix functional for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Yasuhiro Abe

We elaborate on a new recursive method proposed in arXiv:2312.15484 for computing tree-level $n$-point supergluon amplitudes as well as those with one gluon, i.e., spinning amplitudes, in ${\rm AdS}_5 \times S^3$. We present an improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Qu Cao , Song He , Xiang Li , Yichao Tang

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rutger Boels , Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

I describe some recent developments in the understanding of gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the large-N_c limit. These amplitudes can be computed to high orders in the weak coupling expansion, and also now at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 Lance J. Dixon

We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among wide-ranging theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Congkao Wen

Attached to both Yang-Mills and General Relativity about Minkowski spacetime are distinguished gauge independent objects known as the on-shell tree scattering amplitudes. We reinterpret and rigorously construct them as $L_\infty$ minimal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Andrea Nützi , Michael Reiterer

In the gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity the cubic vertex becomes simple enough for some graviton scattering amplitudes to be computed using Berends-Giele-type recursion relations. We present such a computation for the current with all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Gianluca Delfino , Kirill Krasnov , Carlos Scarinci

In this paper we study the scattering amplitudes at strong coupling for the case where the number of gluons is a multiple of four. This is an important missing piece in arXiv:1002.2459. The tricky point for n=4K is that there is some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Gang Yang

The recursive method of Berends and Giele to compute tree-level gluon amplitudes is revisited using the framework of ten-dimensional super Yang-Mills. First we prove that the pure spinor formula to compute SYM tree amplitudes derived in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-12 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

In this work we employ the MHV technique to show that scattering amplitudes with any number of consecutive soft particles behave universally in the multi-soft limit in which all particles go soft simultaneously. After identifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 George Georgiou