Lagrangians manifesting color-kinematics duality in the NMHV sector of Yang-Mills

Abstract Scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory are known to exhibit kinematic structures which hint to an underlying kinematic algebra that is dual to the gauge group color algebra. This color-kinematics duality is still poorly understood in terms of conventional Feynman rules, or from a Lagran...

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Những tác giả chính: Maor Ben-Shahar, Lucia Garozzo, Henrik Johansson
Định dạng: Bài viết
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: SpringerOpen 2023-08-01
Loạt:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)222
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Tóm tắt:Abstract Scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory are known to exhibit kinematic structures which hint to an underlying kinematic algebra that is dual to the gauge group color algebra. This color-kinematics duality is still poorly understood in terms of conventional Feynman rules, or from a Lagrangian formalism. In this work, we present explicit Lagrangians whose Feynman rules generate duality-satisfying tree-level BCJ numerators, to any multiplicity in the next-to-MHV sector of pure Yang-Mills theory. Our Lagrangians make use of at most three pairs of auxiliary fields (2, 1, 0-forms) — surprisingly few compared to previous attempts of Lagrangians at low multiplicities. To restrict the Lagrangian freedom it is necessary to make several non-trivial assumptions regarding field content, kinetic terms, and interactions, which we discuss in some detail. Future progress likely hinges on relaxing these assumptions.
số ISSN:1029-8479