From twistor-particle models to massive amplitudes

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2022.045zbMATH Open1492.81084arXiv2203.08087OpenAlexW4283120811MaRDI QIDQ2155672FDOQ2155672

Yvonne Geyer, L. J. Mason, Giulia Albonico

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In his twistor-particle programme of the 1970's, Roger Penrose introduced a representation of the massive particle phase space in terms of a pair of twistors subject to an internal symmetry group. Here we use this representation to introduce a chiral string whose target is a complexification of this space, extended so as to incorporate supersymmetry. We show that the gauge anomalies associated to the internal symmetry group vanish only for maximal supersymmetry, and that correlators in these string models describe amplitudes involving massive particles with manifest supersymmetry. The models and amplitude formulae exhibit a double copy structure from gauge theory on the Coulomb branch to gravity, although the graviton remains massless. The formulae are closely related to those obtained earlier by the authors expressed in terms of the polarised scattering equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08087

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudestwistor theoryambitwistor string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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