IMPRS Seminar: Twistors and Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes

S. Moch (DESY Zeuthen), H. Nicolai (AEI), J. Plefka (HU), S. Theisen (AEI)



On Fridays, 15.00-16.00 and 16.30-17.30 oscillating between the Albert-Einstein-Institute, Humboldt-University and DESY Zeuthen roughly biweekly:

HU: Room 2'101, Institute of Physics, Newtonstr. 15, Berlin
AEI: Main Seminar Room, Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Am Mühlenberg 1, Golm
Desy Zeuthen: Seminarraum 3, DESY, Platanenallee 6, Zeuthen

Coffee and cookies will be provided in the break.

Summerterm 2006
21. April HU Introduction (2 talks):
E. Witten, "Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space"
hep-th/0312171, Section 2+3
Per Sundin (HU),
Fabian Spill (HU)
5. May AEI Tree Level explicit: (1 talk):
The spinor helicity formalism: a tree-level example

MHV Amplitudes/Tree Level I:
F. Cachazo, P. Svrcek, E. Witten "MHV Vertices and Tree Amplitudes in Gauge Theory" hep-th/0403047
Sudarshan Ananth (AEI),  

Jakob Palmkvist (AEI)
12. May Zeuthen MHV Amplitudes/Tree Level II:
S.Gukov, L.Motl, A.Neitzke "Equivalence of twistor prescritions for super Yang-Mills" hep-th/0404085
 
Recursion relations: (1 talk)
R.Britto,F.Cachazo, B.Feng " New recursion relations for tree amps of gluons" hep-th/0412308
R.Britto,F. Cachazo,B. Feng, E. Witten "Direct proof of tree level recursion relation in YM" hep-th/0501052
Danilo Diaz (HU),
 
 
Mikhail Rogal (Zeuthen)
15. May, 16.00 AEI Research Seminar: Perturbative (supersymmetric) gauge theories from twistor space Rutger Boels (Oxford)
2. June AEI 1 Loop with MHV Vertices: (1 talk)
A.Brandhuber, B.Spence, G.Travaglini, "One-loop Gauge Theory Amplitudes in N=4 SYM from MHV Vertices" hep-th/0407214
 
Direct derivation from field theory (1 talk)
A.Gorsky, A.Rosly "From YM Lagrangian to MHV Diagrams". hep-th/0510111
Burkhard Eden (AEI) ,
 
Stefan Theisen (AEI)
9. June HU Unitarity methods I (1 talk):
Bern, Dixon, Dunbar, Kosower, "One loop n point gauge theory amps, unitarity and colinear limits", hep-ph/9403226
Bern, Dixon, Dunbar, Kosower, "Fusing gauge theory tree amplitudes into loop amplitudes", hep-ph/9409265
 
3 Loops in N=4 SYM: (1 talk)
Bern,Dixon,Smirnov, "Iteration of planar amplitudes in max symmetric YM at three loops and beyond". hep-th/0505205
+ more on colinear limit of gauge theories
Stefano Actis (Zeuthen),
 
Alexander Mitov (Zeuthen)
30. June Zeuthen Unitarity methods II (1 talk):
C. F. Berger, Z. Bern, L.J. Dixon, D. Forde and D. A.~Kosower "Bootstrapping one-loop QCD amplitudes with general helicities" hep-ph/0604195.
 
MHV amplitudes for gravity: (1 talk)
V.P. Nair "A note on MHV Amplitudes for Gravitons", hep-th/0501143
 
Isabella Bierenbaum (Zeuthen)
 
Christian Hillmann (AEI)