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May 14 – 18, 2018
Jefferson Lab - CEBAF Center
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The MHV Lagrangian and hidden Wilson lines

May 15, 2018, 2:40 PM
20m
F113 (Jefferson Lab - CEBAF Center)

F113

Jefferson Lab - CEBAF Center

Speaker

Piotr Kotko (Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN)

Description

The MHV Lagrangian is the Yang-Mills Lagrangian quantized on the light cone, where the two transverse gluonic degrees of freedom have been canonically transformed to a set of new fields, in which the vertices become a series of the maximally helicity violating (MHV) amplitudes continued off-shell. The usage of the MHV vertices to construct amplitudes is also known as the Cachazo-Svrcek-Witten (CSW) method. After a review of these ideas I will discuss properties of the transformation leading to the MHV Lagrangian, in particular I will argue that the solution to the field transformation has a form of certain Wilson line. I will also discuss some consequences of that fact.

Primary author

Piotr Kotko (Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN)

Co-author

Anna Stasto (Pennsylvania State University)

Presentation materials