Eliminating spurious poles from gauge-theoretic amplitudes
Abstract
This note addresses the problem of spurious poles in gauge-theoretic scattering amplitudes. New twistor coordinates for the momenta are introduced, based on the concept of dual conformal invariance. The cancellation of spurious poles for a class of NMHV amplitudes is greatly simplified in these coordinates. The poles are eliminated altogether by defining a new type of twistor integral, dual to twistor diagrams as previously studied, and considerably simpler. The geometric features indicate a supersymmetric extension of the formalism at least to all NMHV amplitudes, allowing the dihedral symmetry of the super-amplitude to be made manifest. More generally, the definition of `momentum-twistor' coordinates suggests a powerful new approach to the study of scattering amplitudes.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)135
- Bibcode:
- 2013JHEP...05..135H
- Keywords:
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- Supersymmetric gauge theory;
- Scattering Amplitudes