Published January 15, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Scattering amplitudes in N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity

  • 1. Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut,Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam (Germany)
  • 2. Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University,104 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
  • 3. Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN,CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

We expose a double-copy structure in the scattering amplitudes of the generic Jordan family of N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity theories in four and five dimensions. The Maxwell-Einstein supergravity amplitudes are obtained through the color/kinematics duality as a product of two gauge-theory factors; one originating from pure N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory and the other from the dimensional reduction of a bosonic higher-dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory. We identify a specific symplectic frame in four dimensions for which the on-shell fields and amplitudes from the double-copy construction can be identified with the ones obtained from the supergravity Lagrangian and Feynman-rule computations. The Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity theories are obtained by gauging a compact subgroup of the isometry group of their Maxwell-Einstein counterparts. For the generic Jordan family this process is identified with the introduction of cubic scalar couplings on the bosonic gauge-theory side, which through the double copy are responsible for the non-abelian vector interactions in the supergravity theory. As a demonstration of the power of this structure, we present explicit computations at tree-level and one loop. The double-copy construction allows us to obtain compact expressions for the supergravity superamplitudes, which are naturally organized as polynomials in the gauge coupling constant.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)081; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/8838

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 81
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP01(2015)081; ARXIV:1408.0764; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:8838
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)