15–16 Dec 2020
Centre for Particle Theory, Durham
Europe/London timezone

Curvy Parke-Taylors

16 Dec 2020, 10:00
30m
Teams (Centre for Particle Theory, Durham)

Teams

Centre for Particle Theory, Durham

IPPP & Dept. Mathematical Sciences Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE

Speaker

Atul Sharma (University of Oxford)

Description

I will report on our discovery of the first-ever all-multiplicity formulae for scattering amplitudes in curved backgrounds. This will involve certain chiral backgrounds treated without any approximations, a slice of twistor theory, a taste of spinor-helicity variables, and a bit of holography for dessert. The end result is a beautiful extension of the Parke-Taylor formula of MHV gluon amplitudes from trivial backgrounds to an infinite class of self-dual radiative gauge field backgrounds.

Length of talk 15-25 minutes
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Primary author

Atul Sharma (University of Oxford)

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