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Exploration of the Tree-Level S-Matrix of Massless Particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In recent years, the BCFW construction provided a very powerful tool for computing scattering amplitudes as well as it shed light on the perturbation theory structure. In this talk, we discuss the long-standing issue of the boundary term arising when the amplitudes do not vanish as some momenta are taken to infinity along some complex direction. In particular, we provide a new set of on-shell recursion relations valid for such theories and discuss its consequences on our understanding on the perturbation theory structure of the S-Matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1201.3191,
  title  = {Exploration of the Tree-Level S-Matrix of Massless Particles},
  author = {Paolo Benincasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3191},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 1 table, contribution to the proceeding of the XVII European Workshop on String Theory