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Scattering Amplitudes

Henriette Elvang, Yu-tin Huang

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Abstract

The purpose of this review is to bridge the gap between a standard course in quantum field theory and recent fascinating developments in the studies of on-shell scattering amplitudes. We build up the subject from basic quantum field theory, starting with Feynman rules for simple processes in Yukawa theory and QED. The material covered includes spinor helicity formalism, on-shell recursion relations, superamplitudes and their symmetries, twistors and momentum twistors, loops and integrands, Grassmannians, polytopes, and amplitudes in perturbative supergravity as well as 3d Chern-Simons-matter theories. Multiple examples and exercises are included.

arXiv comments
269 pages, 134 figures. v2: Typos corrected. This is part of textbook to be published by Cambridge University Press
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hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory hep-phHigh Energy Physics, Phenomenology

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