Amplitudes from anomalous superconformal symmetry

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)179zbMATH Open1409.81141arXiv1811.02560OpenAlexW3124658671WikidataQ128588208 ScholiaQ128588208MaRDI QIDQ667264FDOQ667264

Authors: D. Chicherin, Johannes Henn, Emery Sokatchev 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We initiate a systematic study of the consequences of (super)conformal symmetry of massless scattering amplitudes. The classical symmetry is potentially broken at the quantum level by infrared and ultraviolet effects. We study its manifestations on the finite hard part of the scattering process. The conformal Ward identities in momentum space are second-order differential equations, difficult to analyze. We prefer to study superconformal symmetry whose generators are first-order in the momenta. Working in a massless N=1 supersymmetric Wess-Zumino model, we derive on-shell superconformal Ward identities. They contain an anomaly due to collinear regions of loop momenta. It is given by an integral with one loop less than the original graph, with an extra integral over a collinear splitting parameter. We discuss the relation to the holomorphic anomaly that was previously studied in tree-level amplitudes and at the level of unitarity cuts. We derive and solve Ward identities for various scattering processes in the model. We classify the on-shell superamplitudes according to their Grassmann degree, in close analogy with the helicity classification of gluon amplitudes. We focus on MHV-like and NMHV-like amplitudes with up to six external particles, at one and two loops. Interestingly, the superconformal generator acting on the bosonic part of the amplitudes is Witten's twistor collinearity operator. We find that the first-order differential equations, together with physically motivated boundary conditions, uniquely fix the answer. All the cases considered give rise to uniform weight functions. Our most interesting example is a five-point non-planar hexa-box integral with an off-shell leg. It gives first indications on the function space needed for Higgs plus two jet production at next-to-next-to leading order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02560

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryanomalies in field and string theoriesscattering amplitudessuperspaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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