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Title: Scattering amplitudes in $$\mathcal{N}=2 $$ Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Albert-Einstein Inst., Potsdam (Germany). Max-Planck-Inst. fur Gravitationsphysik
  2. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  3. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). Theory Division, Physics Dept.

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 treelevel and one loop. Lastly, 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.

Research Organization:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0010534; SC0008745
OSTI ID:
1440909
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 1; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 98 works
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