MHV amplitudes in N = 2 SQCD and in N = 4 SYM at one-loop
- 1. Department of Physics and IPPP, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)
Description
Using four-dimensional unitarity and MHV-rules we calculate the one-loop MHV amplitudes with all external particles in the adjoint representation for N = 2 supersymmetric QCD with Nf fundamental flavours. We start by considering such amplitudes in the superconformal N = 4 gauge theory where the N = 4 supersymmetric Ward identities (SWI) guarantee that all MHV amplitudes for all types of external particles are given by the corresponding tree-level result times a universal helicity- and particle-type-independent contribution. In N = 2 SQCD the MHV amplitudes differ from those for N = 4 for general values of Nf and Nc. However, for Nf = 2Nc where the N = 2 SQCD is conformal, the N = 2 MHV amplitudes (with all external particles in the adjoint representation) are identical to the N = 4 results. This factorisation at one-loop motivates us to pose a question if there may be a BDS-like factorisation for these amplitudes which also holds at higher orders of perturbation theory in superconformal N = 2 theory.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/033Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 8
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 033
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41111334
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FLAVOR MODEL; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HELICITY; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SUPERSYMMETRY; UNITARITY; WARD IDENTITY
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY