Published August 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

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/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/033

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
8
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 033
ISSN
1126-6708