Constructing Amplitudes in Conformal Gravity from Gauge Theories

by Henrik Johansson (Uppsala)

Monday 21 Nov 2016, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

I will introduce a new double-copy construction for scattering amplitudes in conformal (super)gravity. The construction relies on input from two gauge theories: (super-)Yang-Mills and a new non-supersymmetric gauge theory that is marginal in six dimensions. The latter theory has several unusual features, such as negative norm states (as expected by its relation to conformal gravity) and a scalar in a peculiar representation of the gauge group. I will discuss various generalizations of the construction.