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Massive celestial amplitudes and celestial amplitudes beyond four points

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-16 v2

Abstract

We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive scalars can be represented as a triple Mellin-Barnes integral. Using these three-point celestial amplitudes, we investigate the conformal block expansions of five- and six-point scalar celestial amplitudes in the comb channel. We observe the presence of two-particle operators in the conformal block expansion of five-point celestial amplitudes, which confirms the previous analysis by taking multi-collinear limit. Moreover, we find that there are new three-particle operators in the conformal block expansion of six-point celestial amplitudes. Based on these findings, we conjecture that exchanges of nn-particle operators can be observed by considering the comb channel conformal block expansion of (n+3)(n+3)-point massless celestial amplitudes. Finally, we show that a new series of operators appears when turning on the mass of the first incoming particle. The leading operator in this series can be interpreted as a two-particle exchange in the OPE of one massive and one massless scalars.

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@article{arxiv.2404.01920,
  title  = {Massive celestial amplitudes and celestial amplitudes beyond four points},
  author = {Reiko Liu and Wen-Jie Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01920},
  year   = {2025}
}

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