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Scattering amplitudes: the most perfect microscopic structures in the universe

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

This article gives an overview of many of the recent developments in understanding the structure of relativistic scattering amplitudes in gauge theories ranging from QCD to N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, as well as (super)gravity. I also provide a pedagogical introduction to some of the basic tools used to organize and illuminate the color and kinematic structure of amplitudes. This article is an invited review introducing a special issue of Journal of Physics A devoted to "Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theories".

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@article{arxiv.1105.0771,
  title  = {Scattering amplitudes: the most perfect microscopic structures in the universe},
  author = {Lance J. Dixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0771},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages, 8 figures. v2: references added, typos fixed

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