Published October 2, 2012
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Journal article
Lightlike contours with fermions
Creators
- 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.2012.09.006Additional 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
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.