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The low-energy limit of the massless two-loop five-point amplitudes for both type IIA and type IIB superstrings is computed with the pure spinor formalism and its overall coefficient determined from first principles. For the type IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Humberto Gomez , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We take a major step towards computing $D$-dimensional one-loop amplitudes in general gauge theories, compatible with the principles of unitarity and the color-kinematics duality. For $n$-point amplitudes with either supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-20 Alex Edison , Song He , Henrik Johansson , Oliver Schlotterer , Fei Teng , Yong Zhang

In these lectures, recent progress on multiloop superstring perturbation theory is reviewed. A construction from first principles is given for an unambiguous and slice-independent two-loop superstring measure on moduli space for even spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-12-23 Eric D'Hoker , D. H. Phong

In this thesis are presented two aplications of the sigma model for the superstring in the pure spinor formulation. The first aplication concerns the computation of the one-loop conformal invariance for the type II superstring, resulting in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-14 Oscar A. Bedoya

The pure spinor formalism for the superstring has the advantage over the more conventional Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz formalism of being manifestly spacetime supersymmetric, which simplifies the computation of multiparticle and multiloop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Nathan Berkovits , Carlos R. Mafra

This paper presents a covariant twistor string model in four dimensions coupled to two-dimensional worldsheet gravity with an anomaly-free BRST charge. The model contains two twistors and two fermionic bi-spinors with incidence related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Christian Kunz

The pure spinor formalism for the superstring has recently been used to compute massless four-point two-loop amplitudes in a manifestly super-Poincare covariant manner. In this paper, we show that when all four external states are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan Berkovits , Carlos R. Mafra

A ten-dimensional super-Poincare covariant formalism for the superstring was recently developed which involves a BRST operator constructed from superspace matter variables and a pure spinor ghost variable. A super-Poincare covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Nathan Berkovits

This is the first of a series of two papers where decoupling of unphysical states in the minimal pure spinor formalism is investigated. The multi-loop amplitude prescription for the minimal pure spinor superstring formulated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-16 Joost Hoogeveen , Kostas Skenderis

Using an elementary perturbative open string field theory solution involving a twistor-like parameter, we study the cohomology of new nilpotent BRST charge corresponding to the space-time background defined by this solution. The BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-24 Dimitri Polyakov

We find a direct map that determines moduli-space integrands for one-loop superstring amplitudes in terms of field-theory loop integrands in the BCJ form. The latter can be computed using efficient unitarity methods, so our map provides an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Yvonne Geyer , Jiachen Guo , Ricardo Monteiro , Lecheng Ren

Perturbative spectra and related factorization properties of one-loop open string amplitudes in the presence of a constant external background B are analysed in detail. While the pattern of the closed string spectrum, obtained after a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bassetto , A. Torrielli , R. Valandro

Using the pure spinor formalism we prove identities which relate the tree-level, one-loop and two-loop kinematic factors for massless four-point amplitudes. From these identities it follows that the complete supersymmetric one- and two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Carlos R. Mafra

We present a new geometrical approach to superstrings based on the geometrical theory of integration on supermanifolds. This approach provides an effective way to calculate multi-loop superstring amplitudes for arbitrary backgrounds. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexander Belopolsky

After constructing a simplified four-dimensional version of the b ghost, topological multiloop amplitudes in type II superstring theory compactified on a six-dimensional orbifold are computed using the non-minimal pure spinor formalism.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Nathan Berkovits , Luis Alberto Ypanaqué

We provide a prescription for computing two-point tree amplitudes in the pure spinor formalism that are finite and agree with the corresponding expression in the field theories. In [arXiv:1906.06051v1-arXiv:1909.03672v3], same results were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Sitender Pratap Kashyap

In this article we present the worldsheet integrand for one-loop amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric superstring theory involving any number n of massless open string states. The polarization dependence is organized into the same BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-03 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We investigate generic properties of one-loop amplitudes in unordered gauge theories in four dimensions. For such theories the organisation of amplitudes in manifestly crossing symmetric expressions poses restrictions on their structure and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-03 Simon Badger , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

The low-energy limit of the four-point 3-loop amplitude (including its overall coefficient) is computed in both type IIA and IIB superstring theories using the pure spinor formalism. The result is shown to agree with the prediction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Humberto Gomez , Carlos R. Mafra

We first derive all world-sheet action functionals for NSR superstring models with (1,1) supersymmetry and any number of abelian gauge fields, for gauge transformations of the standard form. Then we prove for these models that the BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Friedemann Brandt , Alexander Kling , Maximilian Kreuzer