Published October 2, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Lightlike contours with fermions

  • 1. National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, 2050 (South Africa)

Description

We consider high energy scattering of open superstrings in flat spacetime. It is shown that in this regime amplitudes are dominated by minimal supersurfaces spanned by lightlike supercontours built of the on-shell momenta. We demonstrate how using a generalization of the functional over reparametrizations of the boundary one can extract the area of the minimal supersurfaces directly from the lightlike contour. Exponent of the area correctly reproduces RNS amplitudes. We also comment on possible implementation of the supercontours to Wilson loops/Scattering amplitudes duality.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.09.006;
arXiv
arXiv:1205.6369v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00940-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
716
Journal Issue
3-5
Journal Page Range
p. 475-480
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Syrian Arab Republic
INIS RN
44051684
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DUALITY; FERMIONS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SHELLS; SPACE-TIME; SUPERSTRING MODELS; WILSON LOOP
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; STRING MODELS

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