Double-soft limits for gauge and gravity amplitudes

Particle Physics Theory seminar

Double-soft limits for gauge and gravity amplitudes

  • Event time: 2:00pm
  • Event date: 16th December 2015
  • Speaker: Tristan McLoughlin (Trinity College, Dublin)
  • Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305,

Event details

We will discuss the double-soft limit of gluon and graviton amplitudes in four dimensions at tree level. In general this limit is ambiguous and we introduce two natural ways of taking it: A consecutive double-soft limit where one particle is taken soft before the other and a simultaneous limit where both particles are taken soft uniformly. The resulting formulae generalise the universal behaviour of single-soft limits. We will then use these results to discuss the algebraic structure of the symmetries of gravity and Yang-Mills S-matrices.

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