M5-brane and D-brane scattering amplitudes

Heydeman, Matthew; Schwarz, John H.; Wen, Congkao

doi:10.1007/jhep12(2017)003

M5-brane and D-brane scattering amplitudes

Journal Article · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2017)003· OSTI ID:1501891

Heydeman, Matthew ^[1]; Schwarz, John H. ^[2]; Wen, Congkao ^[3]

California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena (United States)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

We present tree-level $$\mathcal{n}$$-particle on-shell scattering amplitudes of various brane theories with 16 conserved supercharges. These include the world-volume theory of a probe D3-brane or D5-brane in 10D Minkowski spacetime as well as a probe M5-brane in 11D Minkowski spacetime, which describes self interactions of an abelian tensor supermultiplet with 6D (2, 0) supersymmetry. Twistor-string-like formulas are proposed for tree-level scattering amplitudes of all multiplicities for each of these theories. The R symmetry of the D3-brane theory is shown to be SU(4) × U(1), and the U(1) factor implies that its amplitudes are helicity conserving. Each of 6D theories (D5-brane and M5-brane) reduces to the D3-brane theory by dimensional reduction. Conclusively, as special cases of the general M5-brane amplitudes, we present compact formulas for examples involving only the self-dual B field with $$\mathcal{n}$$ = 4, 6, 8.

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Research Organization:: California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010255; SC0011632

OSTI ID:: 1501891

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22712667

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2017; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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