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SUMMARY:Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruth Britto (Trinity College Dublin) \nTitle: Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory \nAbstract: Particle collider experiments require a detailed description of scattering events\, traditionally computed through sums of Feynman diagrams. However\, it is not practical to evaluate Feynman diagrams directly for all significant scattering processes. Moreover\, adding all diagrams reveals many cancellations: scattering amplitudes in theories such as QCD take remarkably simple forms. This simplicity is a clue that the perturbative theory is perhaps best understood without reference to Feynman diagrams. In fact\, it has recently become possible to explain some of this simplicity. I will show how to derive many amplitudes efficiently and elegantly\, and propose taming the remaining complexity with ideas drawn from combinatorics and geometry.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/collquium-32923/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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