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On the Scattering of Magnon Boundstates

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the scattering of magnon boundstates in the spin-chain description of planar N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills. Starting from the conjectured exact S-matrix for magnons in the SU(2) sector, we calculate the corresponding S-matrix for boundstates with an arbitrary number of constituent magnons. The resulting expression has an interesting analytic structure with both simple and double poles. We also calculate the semiclassical S-matrix for the scattering of the corresponding excitations on the string worldsheet known as Dyonic Giant Magnons. We find precise agreement with the magnon boundstate S-matrix in the limit of large 't Hooft coupling.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0608047,
  title  = {On the Scattering of Magnon Boundstates},
  author = {Heng-Yu Chen and Nick Dorey and Keisuke Okamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0608047},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages