Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space by Mathew Richard Bullimore

By Mathew Richard Bullimore

Scattering amplitudes are primary and wealthy observables in quantum box concept. in keeping with the remark that, for massless debris of spin-one or extra, scattering amplitudes are a lot easier than anticipated from conventional Feynman diagram ideas, the large target of this paintings is to appreciate and take advantage of this hidden constitution. It makes use of equipment from twistor thought to supply new insights into the correspondence among scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills conception and null polygonal Wilson loops. by way of also exploiting the symmetries of the matter, the writer succeeds in constructing new methods of computing scattering amplitudes.

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