scholarly journals Scattering amplitudes in affine gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Knorr ◽  
Chris Ripken
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Affine Gravity

scholarly journals Isospin-1/2 Dπ scattering and the lightest $$ {D}_0^{\ast } $$ resonance from lattice QCD

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Gayer ◽  
Nicolas Lang ◽  
Sinéad M. Ryan ◽  
David Tims ◽  
Christopher E. Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Lattice Qcd ◽  
Quark Mass ◽  
Light Quark ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Infinite Volume ◽  
Resonance Pole ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Light Quark Mass

Abstract Isospin-1/2 Dπ scattering amplitudes are computed using lattice QCD, working in a single volume of approximately (3.6 fm)3 and with a light quark mass corresponding to mπ ≈ 239 MeV. The spectrum of the elastic Dπ energy region is computed yielding 20 energy levels. Using the Lüscher finite-volume quantisation condition, these energies are translated into constraints on the infinite-volume scattering amplitudes and hence enable us to map out the energy dependence of elastic Dπ scattering. By analytically continuing a range of scattering amplitudes, a $$ {D}_0^{\ast } $$ D 0 ∗ resonance pole is consistently found strongly coupled to the S-wave Dπ channel, with a mass m ≈ 2200 MeV and a width Γ ≈ 400 MeV. Combined with earlier work investigating the $$ {D}_{s0}^{\ast } $$ D s 0 ∗ , and $$ {D}_0^{\ast } $$ D 0 ∗ with heavier light quarks, similar couplings between each of these scalar states and their relevant meson-meson scattering channels are determined. The mass of the $$ {D}_0^{\ast } $$ D 0 ∗ is consistently found well below that of the $$ {D}_{s0}^{\ast } $$ D s 0 ∗ , in contrast to the currently reported experimental result.

scholarly journals KLT factorization of winding string amplitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Gomis ◽  
Ziqi Yan ◽  
Matthew Yu
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Open String ◽  
Closed String ◽  
Open Strings ◽  
Toroidal Compactifications ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
String Amplitudes

Abstract We uncover a Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT)-type factorization of closed string amplitudes into open string amplitudes for closed string states carrying winding and momentum in toroidal compactifications. The winding and momentum closed string quantum numbers map respectively to the integer and fractional winding quantum numbers of open strings ending on a D-brane array localized in the compactified directions. The closed string amplitudes factorize into products of open string scattering amplitudes with the open strings ending on a D-brane configuration determined by closed string data.

scholarly journals Gravitational waves in metric-affine gravity theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Jiménez-Cano ◽  
Yuri N. Obukhov
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Gravity Theory ◽  
Affine Gravity

scholarly journals Algebraic singularities of scattering amplitudes from tropical geometry

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Drummond ◽  
Jack Foster ◽  
Ömer Gürdoğan ◽  
Chrysostomos Kalousios
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Tropical Geometry ◽  
Cluster Algebras ◽  
Finite Alphabet ◽  
Square Root ◽  
Finite Sets ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Square Roots ◽  
Algebraic Singularities

Abstract We address the appearance of algebraic singularities in the symbol alphabet of scattering amplitudes in the context of planar $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. We argue that connections between cluster algebras and tropical geometry provide a natural language for postulating a finite alphabet for scattering amplitudes beyond six and seven points where the corresponding Grassmannian cluster algebras are finite. As well as generating natural finite sets of letters, the tropical fans we discuss provide letters containing square roots. Remarkably, the minimal fan we consider provides all the square root letters recently discovered in an explicit two-loop eight-point NMHV calculation.

scholarly journals Open associahedra and scattering forms

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Herderschee ◽  
Fei Teng
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Canonical Form ◽  
Recursion Relations ◽  
Fiber Product ◽  
New Phenomena

Abstract We continue the study of open associahedra associated with bi-color scattering amplitudes initiated in ref. [1]. We focus on the facet geometries of the open associahedra, uncovering many new phenomena such as fiber-product geometries. We then provide novel recursion procedures for calculating the canonical form of open associahedra, generalizing recursion relations for bounded polytopes to unbounded polytopes.

scholarly journals All-plus helicity off-shell gauge invariant multigluon amplitudes at one loop

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Blanco ◽  
Andreas van Hameren ◽  
Piotr Kotko ◽  
Krzysztof Kutak
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Gauge Invariance ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Gauge Invariant

Abstract We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct on-shell limit. Our method is based on embedding the off-shell process, together with contributions needed to retain gauge invariance, in a bigger fully on-shell process with auxiliary quark or gluon line.

scholarly journals Two-parton scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit to high loop orders

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Caron-Huot ◽  
Einan Gardi ◽  
Joscha Reichel ◽  
Leonardo Vernazza
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
Dimensional Regularization ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Logarithmic Order ◽  
Finite Radius ◽  
High Loop ◽  
Parton Scattering ◽  
Infrared Divergences ◽  
Regge Limit

Abstract We study two-to-two parton scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit of perturbative QCD by iteratively solving the BFKL equation. This allows us to predict the imaginary part of the amplitude to leading-logarithmic order for arbitrary t-channel colour exchange. The corrections we compute correspond to ladder diagrams with any number of rungs formed between two Reggeized gluons. Our approach exploits a separation of the two-Reggeon wavefunction, performed directly in momentum space, between a soft region and a generic (hard) region. The former component of the wavefunction leads to infrared divergences in the amplitude and is therefore computed in dimensional regularization; the latter is computed directly in two transverse dimensions and is expressed in terms of single-valued harmonic polylogarithms of uniform weight. By combining the two we determine exactly both infrared-divergent and finite contributions to the two-to-two scattering amplitude order-by-order in perturbation theory. We study the result numerically to 13 loops and find that finite corrections to the amplitude have a finite radius of convergence which depends on the colour representation of the t-channel exchange.

scholarly journals Spurious poles in the scattering of electric and magnetic charges

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Terning ◽  
Christopher B. Verhaaren
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Scattering Amplitudes ◽  
Pair Production ◽  
Magnetic Particles ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Magnetic Interactions ◽  
Parity Conservation ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The Way

Abstract Theories with both electric and magnetic charges (“mutually non-local” theories) have several major obstacles to calculating scattering amplitudes. Even when the interaction arises through the kinetic mixing of two, otherwise independent, U(1)’s, so that all low-energy interactions are perturbative, difficulties remain: using a self-dual, local formalism leads to spurious poles at any finite order in perturbation theory. Correct calculations must show how the spurious poles cancel in observable scattering amplitudes. Consistency requires that one type of charge is confined as a result of one of the U(1)’s being broken. Here we show how the constraints of confinement and parity conservation on observable processes manages to cancel the spurious poles in scattering and pair production amplitudes, paving the way for systematic studies of the experimental signatures of “dark” electric-magnetic processes. Along the way we demonstrate some novel effects in electric-magnetic interactions, including that the amplitude for single photon production of magnetic particles by electric particles vanishes.

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