Publication details for Mathew Bullimore

Bullimore, Mathew, Mason, Lionel & Skinner, David (2010). MHV diagrams in momentum twistor space. Journal of High Energy Physics 2010(12): 032.

• Publication type: Journal Article
• ISSN/ISBN: 1029-8479 (electronic)
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2010)032
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Author(s) from Durham

• Mathew Bullimore

Abstract

We show that there are remarkable simplifications when the MHV diagram formalism for N=4 super Yang-Mills is reformulated in momentum twistor space. The vertices are replaced by unity while each propagator becomes a dual superconformal ‘R-invariant’ whose arguments may be read off from the diagram, and include an arbitrarily chosen reference twistor. The momentum twistor MHV rules generate a formula for the full, all-loop planar integrand for the super Yang-Mills S-matrix that is manifestly dual superconformally invariant up to the choice of a reference twistor. We give a general proof of this reformulation and illustrate its use by computing the momentum twistor NMHV and N2MHV tree amplitudes and the integrands of the MHV and NMHV 1-loop and the MHV 2-loop planar amplitudes.