Prof Gabriele Travaglini
Professor of Theoretical Physics
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Quantum field theory, scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity, gravitational waves, string theory
Interests
My work focuses on modern methods to compute relativistic scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. Particular problems I am interested in are the study of hidden symmetries of the S-matrix of quantum field theories and the computation of the scattering amplitudes, particularly in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and in (super)gravity theories. More recently I have been working on applying scattering amplitude techniques to problems in classical gravitational physics, specifically to study the emission of gravitational waves in the merger of two black holes or neutron stars. A short summary of this research written for the general public can be found here (see page 9).From 2018 to 2022 I was the Scientific Coordinator of SAGEX ("Scattering Amplitudes: from Geometry to Experiment"), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. SAGEX was a unique consortium that brought together eight academic beneficiary institutions, eight academic partners as well as high-profile industry partners, in order to train 15 Early Stage Researchers in the rapidly evolving field of scattering amplitudes.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics2024
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Chen G, Travaglini G and Matasan PV (2024). Spinning waveforms in cubic effective field theories of gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC vol. 2024 (12) 05-12-2024
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Pichini P, Travaglini G and Matasan PV (2024). Spinning binary dynamics in cubic effective field theories of gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2024 (8) 22-08-2024
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Chen G, Gowdy J and Travaglini G (2024). Resummed spinning waveforms from five-point amplitudes. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC vol. 2024 (2) 05-02-2024
2023
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Chen G, De Angelis S, Gowdy J and Travaglini G (2023). One-loop gravitational bremsstrahlung and waveforms from a heavy-mass effective field theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2023 (6), 48-48. 12-06-2023
2022
Travaglini G, Brandhuber A, Dorey P, McLoughlin T, Abreu S, Bern Z, Bjerrum-Bohr NEJ, Blümlein J, Britto R, Carrasco JJM, Chicherin D, Chiodaroli M, Damgaard PH, Del Duca V, Dixon LJ, Dorigoni D, Duhr C, Geyer Y, Green MB, Herrmann E, et al. (2022). The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes., Editors: Travaglini G, Dorey P, Brandhuber A and McLoughlin T. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical vol. 55 (44), 443001-443001. 19-12-2022
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Chen G, Gowdy J, Travaglini G and Wen C (2022). Amplitudes, Hopf algebras and the colour-kinematics duality. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2022 (12), 101-101. 19-12-2022
Brandhuber A, Plefka J and Travaglini G (2022). The SAGEX review on scattering amplitudes Chapter 1: Modern fundamentals of amplitudes. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical vol. 55 (44), 443002-443002. 04-11-2022
Brandhuber A, Chen G, Johansson H, Travaglini G and Wen C (2022). Kinematic Hopf Algebra for Bern-Carrasco-Johansson Numerators in Heavy-Mass Effective Field Theory and Yang-Mills Theory. Physical Review Letters vol. 128 (12), 121601-121601. 25-03-2022
2021
Brandhuber A, Chen G, Travaglini G and Wen C (2021). Classical gravitational scattering from a gauge-invariant double copy. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 (10) 15-10-2021
Brandhuber A, Brown GR, Gowdy J, Spence B and Travaglini G (2021). Celestial superamplitudes. Physical Review D vol. 104 (4) 31-08-2021
Brandhuber A, Chen G, Travaglini G and Wen C (2021). A new gauge-invariant double copy for heavy-mass effective theory. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 (7), 47-47. 09-07-2021
Accettulli Huber M, Brandhuber A, De Angelis S and Travaglini G (2021). From amplitudes to gravitational radiation with cubic interactions and tidal effects. Physical Review D vol. 103 (4), 045015-045015. 15-02-2021
2020
Accettulli Huber M, Brandhuber A, De Angelis S and Travaglini G (2020). Eikonal phase matrix, deflection angle, and time delay in effective field theories of gravity. Physical Review D vol. 102 (4), 046014-046014. 21-08-2020
Accettulli Huber M, Brandhuber A, De Angelis S and Travaglini G (2020). Note on the absence of
R2
corrections to Newton’s potential. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 101 (4) 10-02-2020
Accettulli Huber M, Brandhuber A, De Angelis S and Travaglini G (2020). Complete form factors in Yang-Mills from unitarity and spinor helicity in six dimensions. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 101 (2) 06-01-2020
Brandhuber A and Travaglini G (2020). On higher-derivative effects on the gravitational potential and particle bending. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Science and Business Media LLC vol. 2020 (1) 02-01-2020
2019
Bianchi L, Brandhuber A, Panerai R and Travaglini G (2019). Form factor recursion relations at loop level. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany) 27-02-2019
Bianchi L, Brandhuber A, Panerai R and Travaglini G (2019). Dual conformal invariance for form factors. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 (2) 20-02-2019
2018
Brandhuber A, Kostacińska M, Penante B and Travaglini G (2018). Tr(F^3) supersymmetric form factors and maximal transcendentality. Part I. N = 4 super Yang-Mills. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (12) 13-12-2018
Brandhuber A, Kostacińska M, Penante B and Travaglini G (2018). Tr(F^3) supersymmetric form factors and maximal transcendentality. Part II. 0 < N < 4 super Yang-Mills. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (12) 13-12-2018
Nandan D, Plefka J and Travaglini G (2018). All rational one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes at four points. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 (9) 01-09-2018
2017
Brandhuber A, Kostacińska M, Penante B and Travaglini G (2017). Higgs Amplitudes from N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Physical Review Letters vol. 119 (16) 16-10-2017
2016
Brandhuber A, Hughes E, Panerai R, Spence B and Travaglini G (2016). The connected prescription for form factors in twistor space. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (11) 23-11-2016
BRANDHUBER A, Kostacinska M, Penante B, Travaglini G and Young D (2016). The SU(2|3) dynamic two-loop form factors. Journal of High Energy Physics 23-08-2016
Brandhuber A, Hughes E, Spence B and Travaglini G (2016). One-loop soft theorems via dual superconformal symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 (3) 14-03-2016
2015
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Travaglini G and Young D (2015). Yangian Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes and the Dilatation Operator in N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Physical Review Letters vol. 115 (14) 30-09-2015
TRAVAGLINI G, Plefka J, McLoughlin T, Nandan D and Klose T (2015). Double-soft limits of gluons and gravitons. 24-07-2015
Brandhuber A, Penante B, Travaglini G and Young D (2015). Integrability and unitarity. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg vol. 1505, 005-005. 04-05-2015
Brandhuber A, Penante B, Travaglini G and Young D (2015). Integrability and MHV diagrams in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Phys.Rev.Lett. vol. 114, 071602-071602. 20-02-2015
2014
Brandhuber A, Penante B, Travaglini G and Wen C (2014). The last of the simple remainders. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (8) 18-08-2014
Penante B, Spence B, Travaglini G and Wen C (2014). On super form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (4) 11-04-2014
Bianchi M, Brandhuber A, Travaglini G and Wen C (2014). Simplifying instanton corrections to N=4 SYM correlators. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (4) 01-01-2014
2013
Brandhuber A, Guerdogan O, Korres D, Mooney R and Travaglini G (2013). Two-loop Sudakov form factor in ABJM. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (11) 01-01-2013
2012
Brandhuber A, Travaglini G and Wen C (2012). All one-loop amplitudes in N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS vol. 2012 (10) 01-10-2012
Brandhuber A, Travaglini G and Wen C (2012). A note on amplitudes in N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS vol. 2012 (7) 01-07-2012
Brandhuber A, Travaglini G and Yang G (2012). Analytic two-loop form factors in N=4 SYM. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (5) 01-01-2012
2011
Brandhuber A, Korres D, Koschade D and Travaglini G (2011). One-loop amplitudes in six-dimensional (1,1) theories from generalised unitarity. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (2) 01-02-2011
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Yang G (2011). Form factors in N=4 super Yang-Mills and periodic Wilson loops. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2011 (1) 01-01-2011
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2011). Tree-level formalism. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL vol. 44 (45) 01-01-2011
Brandhuber A, Guerdogan O, Mooney R, Travaglini G and Yang G (2011). Harmony of super form factors. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (10) 01-01-2011
2010
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Yang G (2010). A note on dual MHV diagrams in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (12) 01-12-2010
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Katsaroumpas P, Nguyen D, Spence B, Spradlin M and Travaglini G (2010). A surprise in the amplitude/Wilson loop duality. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (7) 01-07-2010
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2010). Simplicity of polygon Wilson loops in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (1) 01-01-2010
2009
Brandhuber A, Heslop P and Travaglini G (2009). Proof of the dual conformal anomaly of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (10) 01-10-2009
Brandhuber A, Heslop P and Travaglini G (2009). One-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and anomalous dual conformal symmetry. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2009 (8) 01-08-2009
Katsaroumpas P, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). One-loop N=8 supergravity coefficients from N=4 super Yang-Mills. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (8) 01-08-2009
Anastasiou C, Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Khoze VV, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). Two-loop polygon Wilson loops in N=4 SYM. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (5) 01-05-2009
Brandhuber A, Heslop P, Nasti A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2009). Four-point amplitudes in N=8 supergravity and Wilson loops. NUCL PHYS B vol. 807 (1-2), 290-314. 21-01-2009
2008
Brandhuber A, Heslop P and Travaglini G (2008). Note on dual superconformal symmetry of the N=4 super Yang-Mills S matrix. PHYS REV D vol. 78 (12) 01-12-2008
Brandhuber A, Heslop P and Travaglini G (2008). MHV amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills and Wilson Loops. NUCL PHYS B vol. 794 (1-2), 231-243. 01-05-2008
2007
Nasti A and Travaglini G (2007). One-loop N=8 supergravity amplitudes from MHV diagrams. CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV vol. 24 (23), 6071-6095. 07-12-2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B, Travaglini G and Zoubos K (2007). One-loop MHV rules and pure yang-mills. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (7) 01-07-2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Twistor inspired methods in gauge theory and gravity. CONTEMP PHYS vol. 48 (3), 131-142. 01-05-2007
BRANDHUBER A and TRAVAGLINI G (2007). QUANTUM MHV DIAGRAMS. Continuous Advances in QCD 2006. 01-03-2007
Brandhuber A, McNamara S, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Recursion relations for one-loop gravity amplitudes. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (3) 01-03-2007
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2007). Amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills and MHV diagrams. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (2) 01-02-2007
2006
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2006). From trees to loops and back. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (1) 01-01-2006
2005
Brandhuber A, McNamara S, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). Loop amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills from generalised unitarity. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (10) 01-10-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes. NUCL PHYS B vol. 721, 98-110. 15-08-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). Non-supersymmetric loop amplitudes and MHV vertices. NUCL PHYS B vol. 712 (1-2), 59-85. 18-04-2005
Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). One-loop gauge theory amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills from MHV vertices. NUCL PHYS B vol. 706 (1-2), 150-180. 31-01-2005
Bedford J, Brandhuber A, Spence B and Travaglini G (2005). A twistor approach to one-loop amplitudes in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. NUCL PHYS B vol. 706 (1-2), 100-126. 31-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G and Brandhuber A (2005). One-loop gauge theory amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills from MHV vertices. Nuc. Phys. B vol. 706 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G, Brandhuber A and Bedford J (2005). A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes. Nuclear Physics B vol. B721, 98-110. 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, TRAVAGLINI G, Brandhuber A and Bedford J (2005). Non-supersymmetric loop amplitudes and MHV vertices. Nuc. Phys. B vol. B712 01-01-2005
Spence WJ, BRANDHUBER A, Travaglini G and Bedford J (2005). A Twistor Approach to One-Loop Amplitudes in N=1 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Nuclear Physics vol. B706 01-01-2005
2004
Georgiou G and Travaglini G (2004). Fermion BMN operators, the dilatation operator of N=4 SYM, and pp-wave string interactions. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (4) 01-04-2004
Georgiou G and Travaglini G (2004). Fermion BMN operators, the dilatation operator of N = 4 SYM, and pp-wave string interactions. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 8 (4), 1-34. 01-04-2004
Levell J and Travaglini G (2004). Effective actions, Wilson lines and the IR/UV mixing in noncommutative supersymmetric gauge theories. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (3) 01-03-2004
2003
Georgiou G, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2003). New tests of the pp-wave correspondence. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (10) 01-10-2003
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2003). BMN operators with vector impurities, Z(2) symmetry and pp-waves. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (6) 01-06-2003
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2003). BMN operators with vector impurities, ℤ2 symmetry and pp-waves. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 7 (6), 1295-1318. 01-06-2003
Travaglini G (2003). Noncommutativity, supersymmetry breaking and model building., Editors: Abel SA, Faraggi AE, Ibarra A and Plumacher M. 01-01-2003
2002
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2002). Noncommutativity and model building. PHYS LETT B vol. 543 (3-4), 318-322. 12-09-2002
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2002). PP-wave string interactions from n-point correlators of BMN operators. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (9) 01-09-2002
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2002). Three-point functions in N=4 Yang-Mills theory and pp-waves. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS (6) 01-06-2002
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2002). Three-point functions in N = 4 Yang-Mills theory and pp-waves. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 6 (6), 199-212. 01-06-2002
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2002). Notes on noncommutative instantons. NUCL PHYS B vol. 621 (1-2), 101-130. 21-01-2002
TRAVAGLINI G (2002). Dynamics of noncommutative gauge theories. in Proceedings of the first International Conference on String Phenomenology, Oxford, 6-12 July 2002. 01-01-2002
2001
Hollowood TJ, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2001). Exact results in noncommutative at = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 5 (5) 01-12-2001
Bruzzo U, Fucito F, Tanzini A and Travaglini G (2001). On the multi-instanton measure for super Yang-Mills theories. NUCL PHYS B vol. 611 (1-3), 205-226. 17-09-2001
Chu CS, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2001). Dynamical breaking of supersymmetry in noncommutative gauge theories. PHYS LETT B vol. 513 (1-2), 200-206. 26-07-2001
Hollowood TJ, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2001). Exact results in noncommutative ???? = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2001 (05) 25-05-2001
Hollowood TJ, Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2001). Exact results in noncommutative N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2001 (5) 01-05-2001
Khoze VV and Travaglini G (2001). Wilsonian effective actions and the IR/UV mixing in noncommutative gauge theories. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2001 (1) 01-01-2001
Chu CS, TRAVAGLINI G and Khoze VV (2001). Dynamical breaking of supersymmetry in noncommutative gauge theories. Physics Letters B vol. 513 01-01-2001
2000
Bellisai D, Fucito F, Travaglini G and Tanzini A (2000). Instanton calculus, topological field theories and N = 2 super Yang-Mills theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature vol. 2000 (07) 10-07-2000
Bellisai D, Fucito F, Travaglini G and Tanzini A (2000). Instanton calculus, topological field theories and N=2 Super Yang-Mills theories. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS vol. 2000 (7) 01-07-2000
TRAVAGLINI G, Bellisai D, Fucito F and Tanzini A (2000). Multi - instantons, supersymmetry and topological field theories. Physics Letters B, Elsevier vol. 480 (3-4), 365-372. 11-05-2000
1998
Bellisai D and Travaglini G (1998). Instanton calculus and SUSY gauge theories on asymptotically locally Euclidean manifolds. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 58 (2) 15-06-1998
1997
Travaglini G (1997). A Wilson-Majorana regularization for lattice chiral gauge theories. Nuclear Physics B, Elsevier vol. 507 (3), 709-727. 01-12-1997
Bellisai D, Fucito F, Matone M and Travaglini G (1997). Nonholomorphic terms in N=2 supersymmetric Wilsonian actions and the renormalization group equation. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 56 (8), 5218-5232. 15-10-1997
Fucito F and Travaglini G (1997). Instanton calculus and nonperturbative relations in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 55 (2), 1099-1104. 15-01-1997
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental PhysicsFrom scattering amplitudes to gravitational waves - Leverhulme Research FellowshipGabriele Travaglini
£64,874 Leverhulme Trust (01-05-2024 - 30-09-2025)
Amplitudes, Strings and Duality (CG 2022)Andreas Brandhuber, David Berman, Matthew Buican, Rodolfo Russo, David Vegh, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Gabriele Travaglini, Christopher White, Bill Spence, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£1,477,966 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026)
Amplitudes, Strings and DualityAndreas Brandhuber, Bill Spence, Rodolfo Russo, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Matthew Buican, Michael Green, Steven Thomas, Steven Thomas, Gabriele Travaglini, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, David Berman, Christopher White, David Vegh, Ricardo Monteiro and Malcolm Perry
£890,210 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (01-10-2020 - 31-03-2024)
Scattering Amplitudes: from Geometry to Experiment (SAGEX)Gabriele Travaglini
£862,514 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-09-2018 - 31-10-2022)