English

Scattering amplitudes in N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-22 v2

Abstract

We expose a double-copy structure in the scattering amplitudes of the generic Jordan family of N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity theories in four and five dimensions. The Maxwell-Einstein supergravity amplitudes are obtained through the color/kinematics duality as a product of two gauge-theory factors; one originating from pure N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory and the other from the dimensional reduction of a bosonic higher-dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory. We identify a specific symplectic frame in four dimensions for which the on-shell fields and amplitudes from the double-copy construction can be identified with the ones obtained from the supergravity Lagrangian and Feynman-rule computations. The Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity theories are obtained by gauging a compact subgroup of the isometry group of their Maxwell-Einstein counterparts. For the generic Jordan family this process is identified with the introduction of cubic scalar couplings on the bosonic gauge-theory side, which through the double copy are responsible for the non-abelian vector interactions in the supergravity theory. As a demonstration of the power of this structure, we present explicit computations at tree-level and one loop. The double-copy construction allows us to obtain compact expressions for the supergravity superamplitudes which are naturally organized as polynomials in the gauge coupling constant.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0764,
  title  = {Scattering amplitudes in N=2 Maxwell-Einstein and Yang-Mills/Einstein supergravity},
  author = {Marco Chiodaroli and Murat Gunaydin and Henrik Johansson and Radu Roiban},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0764},
  year   = {2015}
}

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60 pages, 2 figures, PDFLaTex, version published on JHEP

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