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 Physics at Virginia

"Collinear Superspace"


Gilly Elor , University of Washington
[Host: Peter Arnold]
ABSTRACT:

Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) is a framework for modeling the infrared structure of theories whose long distance behavior is dominated by soft and collinear divergences. SCET is utilized to compute processes in Jet physics, WIMP annihilations, and more. My collaborators and I showed that SCET can be made compatible with supersymmetry, and that such a theory can be conveniently formulated in "Collinear Superspace". In this talk I will introduce a new set of effective field theory rules for constructing Lagrangians in collinear superspace. This new formalism represents a general way to derive on-shell superspace Lagrangians directly from the symmetries of the theory. However, I will also demonstrate how the non-propagating off shell degrees of freedom i.e. F and D terms, can be reintroduced into the theory. This framework paves the way to constructing theories with N > 1 supersymmetry directly from low-energy considerations, and has potential implications for supergravity, the Scattering Amplitudes program, and more.

Condensed Matter Seminar
Thursday, January 30, 2020
12:45 PM
Physics Building, Room 313
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