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  • The S matrix of 6D super Ya...
    Cachazo, Freddy; Guevara, Alfredo; Heydeman, Matthew; Mizera, Sebastian; Schwarz, John H.; Wen, Congkao

    The journal of high energy physics, 09/2018, Letnik: 2018, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    A bstract We present new formulas for n -particle tree-level scattering amplitudes of six-dimensional N = 1 1 super Yang-Mills (SYM) and N = 2 2 supergravity (SUGRA). They are written as integrals over the moduli space of certain rational maps localized on the ( n − 3)! solutions of the scattering equations. Due to the properties of spinor-helicity variables in six dimensions, the even- n and odd- n formulas are quite different and have to be treated separately. We first propose a manifestly supersymmetric expression for the even- n amplitudes of N = 1 1 SYM theory and perform various consistency checks. By considering soft-gluon limits of the even- n amplitudes, we deduce the form of the rational maps and the integrand for n odd. The odd- n formulas obtained in this way have a new redundancy that is intertwined with the usual SL(2 , ℂ) invariance on the Riemann sphere. We also propose an alternative form of the formulas, analogous to the Witten-RSV formulation, and explore its relationship with the symplectic (or Lagrangian) Grassmannian. Since the amplitudes are formulated in a way that manifests double-copy properties, formulas for the six-dimensional N = 2 2 SUGRA amplitudes follow. These six-dimensional results allow us to deduce new formulas for five-dimensional SYM and SUGRA amplitudes, as well as massive amplitudes of four-dimensional N = 4 SYM on the Coulomb branch.