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N =4 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory, Twistor Space, and
Dualities
David A. KosowerDavid A. Kosower
Saclay LecturesSaclay Lectures
Fall Term 2004Fall Term 2004
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Course Overview
• Present advanced techniques for calculating amplitudes in gauge theories
• Motivation for hard calculations
• Review gauge theories and supersymmetry• Color decomposition; spinor-helicity basis; recurrence
relations; supersymmetry Ward identities; factorization properties of gauge-theory amplitudes
• Twistor space; Cachazo-Svrcek-Witten rules for amplitudes
• Unitarity-based method for loop calculations; loop integral reductions
• Computation of anomalous dimensions
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Why Calculate Amplitudes?
• It’s an easy way to while away your professional time
• It leads to great opportunities for TV hosting slots
• There are strong physics motivations: LHC physics
• There are strong mathematical physics motivations: study of AdS/CFT duality
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LHC Is Coming, LHC Is Coming!
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CDF event
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CMS Higgs event simulation
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D0 event
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Guenther Dissertori (Jan ’04)
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Hunting for New Physics
• Compare measurements to predictions — need to calculate signals
• To extract measurements, need to understand backgrounds — and they are often huge!
• Predicting backgrounds requires precision calculations of known Standard Model physics
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Precision Perturbative QCD
• Predictions of signals, signals+jets
• Predictions of backgrounds
• Measurement of luminosity
• Measurement of fundamental parameters (s, mt)
• Measurement of electroweak parameters
• Extraction of parton distributions — ingredients in any theoretical prediction
Everything at a hadron collider involves QCD
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From the Formal Side
• String theory
• Understanding the nature of quantum gravity
• Gauge theory at strong coupling
• Old idea of ‘t Hooft: large-N QCD at strong coupling should be a string theory
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AdS/CFT Duality
Type IIB string theory on a special background, AdS5×S5
is dual to N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory on the boundary at spatial infinity
Maldacena (1997)
Same theory, seen through different variables
Special example of holography in gravitational theory: can be represented by degrees of freedom on the boundary
’t Hooft; Susskind; Thorne
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IIB string theory on AdS5×S5 N=4 SUSY gauge theory
’t Hooft coupling
Same symmetries: SU(2,2|4) SO(4,2) conformal SO(6) isometries of S5 = SU(4)R
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Planar Limit in Gauge Theories
‘t Hooft (1974)
• Consider large-N gauge theories, g2N ~ 1, use double-line notation
• Planar diagrams dominate
• Sum over all diagrams surface or string diagram
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• Computations in the gauge theory good for testing duality
• Understanding string theory better
• Computing in low-energy QCD
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Review of Gauge Theory
Take an SU(N) symmetry
and make it local. Introduce connection
Structure constants
Gluon transformation
Covariant derivative
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Construct a field-strength tensor
in terms of components:
Squaring it gives us a kinetic energy term, and the Lagrangian
The m = 0 theory has scale invariance classically
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Scattering
Scattering matrix element
Decompose it
Invariant matrix element M
Differential cross section
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Lorentz-invariant phase-space measure
Compute invariant matrix element by crossing
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Functional Integration
Compute operator expectation values
Gauge theories have redundant degrees of freedom
Need to freeze the unphysical degrees of freedom ‘gauge fixing’
Faddeev–Popov trick: functional delta function
gauge transformation
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Change variables, the observable is now
Choose a covariant gauge-fixing condition
and use the ’t Hooft trick to average over all ws
Our observable is now
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Lagrangian
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Feynman Rules
Propagator (like QED)
Three-gluon vertex (unlike QED)
Four-gluon vertex (unlike QED)
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The Functional Determinant
Delta function leads to functional determinant
Infinitesimal gauge transformation
determinant
In QED, this is independent of G over-all normalization of path integral, cancels out of Green functions
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Represent the functional determinant as a path integral
anticommuting scalars or ghosts
Propagator
coupling to gauge bosons
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Light-Cone Gauge
Only physical (transverse) degrees of freedom propagate
physical projector — two degrees of freedom
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Color Decomposition
Standard Feynman rules function of momenta, polarization vectors , and color indices
Color structure is predictable. Use representation
to represent each term as a product of traces,
and the Fierz identity
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To unwind traces
Leads to tree-level representation in terms of single traces
Color-ordered amplitude — function of momenta & Color-ordered amplitude — function of momenta & polarizations alone; polarizations alone; notnot Bose symmetric Bose symmetric
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Symmetry properties
• Cyclic symmetry
• Reflection identity
• Parity flips helicities
• Decoupling equation
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Color-Ordered Feynman Rules
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Amplitudes
Functions of momenta k, polarization vectors for gluons;
momenta k, spinor wavefunctions u for fermions
Gauge invariance implies this is a redundant representation:
k: A = 0
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Spinor Helicity
Spinor wavefunctions
Introduce spinor products
Explicit representation
where
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We then obtain the explicit formulæ
otherwise
so that the identity always holds
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Introduce four-component representation
corresponding to matrices
in order to define spinor strings
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Properties of the Spinor Product
• Antisymmetry
• Gordon identity
• Charge conjugation
• Fierz identity
• Projector representation
• Schouten identity
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Spinor-Helicity Representation for Gluons
Gauge bosons also have only ± physical polarizations
Elegant — and covariant — generalization of circular polarization
Xu, Zhang, Chang (1984)
reference momentum q
Transverse
Normalized
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What is the significance of q?
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Properties of the Spinor-Helicity Basis
Physical-state projector
Simplifications