Tales of 1001 gluons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSREP.2017.01.004zbMATH Open1366.81284arXiv1610.05318OpenAlexW2533511475MaRDI QIDQ2364237FDOQ2364237

Authors: Stefan Weinzierl 

Publication date: 18 July 2017

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These lectures are centred around tree-level scattering amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theories, the most prominent example is given by the tree-level gluon amplitudes of QCD. I will discuss several ways of computing these amplitudes, illustrating in this way recent developments in perturbative quantum field theory. Topics covered in these lectures include colour decomposition, spinor and twistor methods, off- and on-shell recursion, MHV amplitudes and MHV expansion, the Grassmannian and the amplituhedron, the scattering equations and the CHY representation. At the end of these lectures there will be an outlook on the relation between pure Yang-Mills amplitudes and scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05318

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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• An ambitwistor Yang-Mills Lagrangian
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• From correlation functions to Wilson loops
• Nested sums, expansion of transcendental functions, and multiscale multiloop integrals
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• Scattering amplitudes and BCFW recursion in twistor space
• The Yangian origin of the Grassmannian integral
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• Local spacetime physics from the Grassmannian
• Mass Singularities of Feynman Amplitudes
• From twistor actions to MHV diagrams
• The MHV Lagrangian for a spontaneously broken gauge theory
• \(\Lambda\) scattering equations
• Scattering equations and Feynman diagrams
• Integration rules for loop scattering equations
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• Twistor transform of all tree amplitudes in \({\mathcal N}=4\) SYM theory
• The Lagrangian origin of MHV rules
• KLT and new relations for \(\mathcal{N} = 8\) SUGRA and \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM
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• Anatomy of the amplituhedron
• Computation of contour integrals on \( \mathcal{M}_{0,n} \)
• Elliptic scattering equations
• Infrared behaviour of the one-loop scattering equations and supergravity integrands
• Elimination and recursions in the scattering equations
• Proof of the fundamental BCJ relations for QCD amplitudes
• An algebraic approach to the scattering equations
• New representations of the perturbative \(S\) matrix
• Multiple zeta values and periods of moduli spaces \(\bar {\mathfrak M}_{0,n}\).
• A hierarchical phase space generator for QCD antenna structures
• Simple recursion relations for general field theories
• Proof of a new colour decomposition for QCD amplitudes

Cited In (17)

• UV divergences, RG equations and high energy behaviour of the amplitudes in the Wess-Zumino model with quartic interaction
• Classical and quantum double copy of back-reaction
• New relation for Witten diagrams
• Ambitwistor strings and Reggeon amplitudes in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM
• Unraveling conformal gravity amplitudes
• Amplitudes in fishnet theories in diverse dimensions and box ladder diagrams
• Dual conformal symmetry and iterative integrals in six dimensions
• Properties of scattering forms and their relation to associahedra
• Infrared properties of five-point massive amplitudes in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) SYM on the Coulomb branch
• Planar binary trees in scattering amplitudes
• The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities
• The all-loop conjecture for integrands of Reggeon amplitudes in \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM
• Color-kinematics duality for Sudakov form factor in non-supersymmetric pure Yang–Mills theory
• Worldline description of a bi-adjoint scalar and the zeroth copy
• Amplitudes, recursion relations and unitarity in the abelian Higgs model
• Prescriptive unitarity
• Gluons for (almost) nothing, gravitons for free

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