String-motivated one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories with half-maximal supersymmetry

• We compute one-loop amplitudes in six-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with half-maximal supersymmetry from first principles: imposing gauge invariance and locality on an ansatz made from string-theory inspired kinematic building blocks yields unique expressions for the 3- and 4-point amplitudes. We check that the results are reproduced in the field-theory limit alpha' -> 0 of string amplitudes in K3 orbifolds, using simplifications made in a companion string-theory paper.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Scattering Amplitudes

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Physics

Fysik

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