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Fermion scattering amplitudes from gauge-invariant actions for open superstring field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-05 v1

Abstract

We calculate on-shell scattering amplitudes involving fermions at the tree level in open superstring field theory. We confirm that four-point and five-point amplitudes in the world-sheet path integral with the standard prescription using picture-changing operators are reproduced. For the four-point amplitudes, we find that the quartic interaction required by gauge invariance adjusts the different assignment of picture-changing operators in the ss-channel and in the tt-channel of Feynman diagrams with two cubic vertices. For the five-point amplitudes, the correct amplitudes are reproduced in a more intricate way via the quartic and quintic interactions. Our calculations can be interpreted as those for a complete action with a constraint on the Ramond sector or as those for the covariant formulation developed by Sen with spurious free fields.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00777,
  title  = {Fermion scattering amplitudes from gauge-invariant actions for open superstring field theory},
  author = {Hiroshi Kunitomo and Yuji Okawa and Hiroki Sukeno and Tomoyuki Takezaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00777},
  year   = {2016}
}

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52 pages, 18 figures