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Certain correlation functions are computed exactly in the zero coupling limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N). A set of linearly independent operators that are in one-to-one correspondence with the half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert de Mello Koch , Rhiannon Gwyn

The coulomb branch of $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theories in $d=2+1$ is studied. A direct connection between gauge theories and monopole moduli spaces is presented. It is proposed that the hyper-K\"ahler metric of supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Gordon Chalmers , Amihay Hanany

The mass of 1/4-BPS dyonic configurations in N=4 D=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories is calculated within the Nahm formulation. The SU(3) example, with two massive monopoles and one massless monopole, is considered in detail. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Conor Houghton , Kimyeong Lee

We study scattering amplitudes of massive BPS states on the Coulomb branch of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills, utilising a little group covariant on-shell superspace for massive particles. Super-BCFW recursion for massive amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Aidan Herderschee , Seth Koren , Timothy Trott

We consider the long range forces between two BPS particles on the Coulomb branch of N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric gauge theories. The 1/r potential is unambiguously fixed, even at strong coupling, by the moduli dependence of central charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Adam Ritz , Arkady Vainshtein

We show that adding a vacuum expectation value to a gauge field left over from a dimensional reduction of three-dimensional pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory generates mass terms for the fundamental fields in the two-dimensional theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 U. Trittmann , S. Pinsky

In N=4 super Yang-Mills spin chain, we compute reflection amplitudes of magnon bound-state off giant graviton. We first compute the reflection amplitude off Y=0 brane boundary and compare it with the scattering amplitude between two magnon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Changrim Ahn , Dongsu Bak , Soo-Jong Rey

Studies of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills operators with large R-charge have shown that, in the planar limit, the problem of computing their dimensions can be viewed as a certain spin chain. These spin chains have fundamental ``magnon''…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Diego M. Hofman , Juan Maldacena

We develop a novel bi-harmonic $\mathcal{N}=4$ superspace formulation of the $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM) in four dimensions. In this approach, the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM superfield constraints are solved in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov , V. A. Ivanovskiy

This work is devoted to the six-gluon scattering amplitude in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. At weak coupling, an appropriate high energy limit of the so-called remainder function, i.e. of the deviation from the BDS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-01 J. Bartels , J. Kotanski , V. Schomerus

We study the spectrum of asymptotic states in the spin-chain description of planar N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills. In addition to elementary magnons, the asymptotic spectrum includes an infinite tower of multi-magnon bound states with exact dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nick Dorey

We study $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory on the Coulomb branch (cSYM) in the strong coupling limit by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The dual geometry is the rotating black 3-brane Type IIB supergravity solution with a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Kiminad A. Mamo

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

We study mesons in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with fundamental flavors added at large 't Hooft coupling using the gauge/gravity correspondence. High-spin mesons are well described by using semiclassical string configurations. We determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. D. Jensen , A. Karch , J. Price

Domain walls in strongly coupled gauge theories are discussed. A general mechanism is suggested automatically leading to massless gauge bosons localized on the wall. In one of the models considered, outside the wall the theory is in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Dvali , M. Shifman

We present an explicit formulation of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from $\D=$ 5 to 10 dimensions in the familiar $\N=1,\D=4$ superspace. This provides the rules for globally supersymmetric model building with extra dimensions and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Thomas Gregoire , Jay Wacker

We study the physics of N=1 super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group U(Nc) and one adjoint Higgs field, by using the recently derived exact effective superpotentials. Interesting phenomena occur for some special values of the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Frank Ferrari

The planar N=2* Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory is solved at large 't Hooft coupling using localization on S(4). The solution permits detailed investigation of the resonance phenomena responsible for quantum phase transitions in infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Xinyi Chen-Lin , James Gordon , Konstantin Zarembo

The BPS bound is formulated in light-cone superspace for the N = 4 superYang-Mills theory. As a consequence of the superalgebra all momenta are shown to be expressed as a quadratic form in the relevant supertransformations, and these forms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-15 Patrick Hearin

The N=2* theory (mass deformation of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills) undergoes an infinite number of quantum phase transitions in the large-N limit. The phase structure and critical behavior can be analyzed with the help of supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-18 K. Zarembo