A brief introduction to modern amplitude methods

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Authors Lance J. Dixon

Publication date 15 April 2016

Published in Journeys Through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5353

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: I provide a basic introduction to modern helicity amplitude methods, including color organization, the spinor helicity formalism, and factorization properties. I also describe the BCFW (on-shell) recursion relation at tree level, and explain how similar ideas - unitarity and on-shell methods - work at the loop level. These notes are based on lectures delivered at the 2012 CERN Summer School and at TASI 2013.

Recommendations

• A course in amplitudes
• Amplitudes of field theories
• On-shell methods in perturbative QCD
• Spinor helicity amplitudes method
• Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories

Cited in

(27)

• Quantum gravitational corrections for spinning particles
• Two-loop SL(2) form factors and maximal transcendentality
• Interactions as intertwiners in 4D QFT
• Gravitation and quadratic forms
• Sub-subleading soft graviton theorem in generic theories of quantum gravity
• Form factors in the \(\mathcal N=4\) maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, soft theorems, and integrability
• Anomalous dimensions of effective theories from partial waves
• Covariant color-kinematics duality
• Prescriptive unitarity for non-planar six-particle amplitudes at two loops
• A course in amplitudes
• Graßmannian integrals in Minkowski signature, amplitudes, and integrability
• Spinor helicity amplitudes method
• Overcoming obstacles to colour-kinematics duality at two loops
• CFT unitarity and the AdS Cutkosky rules
• Color structures and permutations
• Black hole formation and classicalization in ultra-Planckian 2 N scattering
• Geometrized quantum Galileons
• Nonsinglet pentagons and NMHV amplitudes
• Color-kinematics duality for Sudakov form factor in non-supersymmetric pure Yang–Mills theory
• Poles at infinity in on-shell diagrams
• Diagonalizing the Hamiltonian of \(\lambda\phi^4\) theory in 2 space-time dimensions
• The chirality-flow formalism for standard model calculations
• The Baker-Coon-Romans N-point amplitude and an exact field theory limit of the Coon amplitude
• Prescriptive unitarity
• Bootstrapping the chiral-gravitational anomaly
• Renormalization of higher-dimensional operators from on-shell amplitudes
• Fermionic pentagons and NMHV hexagon

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