QCD Meets Gravity IV

Europe/Stockholm
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

122:026

Nordita, Stockholm

Agnese Bissi (Uppsala U.), Henrik Johansson (Nordita and Uppsala University), John Joseph Carrasco (Northwestern University & CEA Saclay), Marco Chiodaroli (Uppsala U.)
Description

Scope

Gauge theory and general relativity are the two modern frameworks that describe the interactions of fundamental spin-1 (gluon) and spin-2 (graviton) particles, respectively. Despite significant historical differences in how these theories were developed, recent results show that these frameworks are intimately connected. Scattering amplitudes provide an excellent theoretical laboratory to expose this connection; string theory gave us the KLT relations between tree-level amplitudes in these theories, and more recently the BCJ formalism has provided us with a general mechanism for viewing gravitons as double copies of gluons. This new perspective on gravity has been successfully used in studies of ultraviolet divergences of supergravity, and there is a growing expectation it can be used, in conjunction with methods from QCD phenomenology, to advance analytical calculations of gravitational waves generated by mergers of binary black holes and neutron stars.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together in a collaborative environment world experts on ideas and methods relevant to the double-copy dictionary between gauge and gravity perturbative predictions. The workshop will be equally split between self-directed activities between the participants and formal talks from a subset of the invited researchers. There will be opportunities to create and participate in informal working groups on a number of key problems during the workshop. Topics expected to be covered by the workshop include: amplitudes in supersymmetric gauge theory and gravity, classical solutions and perturbation theory in gravity, effective potentials and gravitational waves, higher-loop QCD, supergravity UV divergences, gravitational symmetries, string amplitudes, on-shell diagrams and the amplituhedron, twistor strings, polylogarithms, color-kinematics duality and the double copy, and more.

Participants include:

  • Tim Adamo
  • Thales Azevedo
  • Paolo Benincasa
  • Marcus Berg
  • Zvi Bern
  • Emil Bjerrum-Bohr
  • Alessandra Buonanno
  • Simon Caron-Huot
  • Mariana Carrillo
  • Eduardo Casali
  • Gang Chen
  • Clifford Cheung
  • Poul Damgaard
  • Thibault Damour
  • Paolo Di Vecchia
  • Lance Dixon
  • Alexander Edison
  • Guido Festuccia
  • Stefano Foffa
  • Alessandro Georgoudis
  • Yvonne Geyer
  • Walter Goldberger
  • Michael Green
  • Alfredo Guevara
  • Monica Guica
  • Song He
  • Gregory Korchemsky
  • David Kosower
  • Gregor Kälin
  • Michèle Levi
  • Andrés Luna
  • Carlos Mafra
  • Gustav Mogull
  • Matin Mojaza
  • Ricardo Monteiro
  • Silvia Nagy
  • Dhritiman Nandan
  • Isobel Nicholson
  • Niels Obers
  • Alexander Ochirov
  • Donal O'Connell
  • Julio Parra-Martinez
  • Jan Plefka
  • Rafael Porto
  • Laurentiu Rodina
  • Radu Roiban
  • Ira Rothstein
  • Oliver Schlotterer
  • Chia-Hsien Shen
  • Jan Steinhoff
  • Riccardo Sturani
  • Bo Sundborg
  • Fei Teng
  • Piotr Tourkine
  • Jaroslav Trnka
  • Arkady Tseytlin
  • Pierre Vanhove
  • Justin Vines
  • Dima Volin
  • Tianheng Wang
  • Matthias Wilhelm
  • Chris White
  • Wadim Wormsbecher
  • Konstantin Zarembo
  • Mao Zeng

Venue

The meeting and informal discussions will be located to the three small Nordita buildings on the the AlbaNova University Center just north of the Stockholm city centre. The formal talks will take place in various rooms in the adjacent large AlbaNova building.

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden


Format

We aim at having presentations during the morning 9:30am-12:30pm, with plenty of free time for discussions and informal working groups during the afternoon. The day will finish with two short talks around 4:30am-5:30pm. Friday afternoon is free.

Workshop series

QCD Meets Gravity is part of a workshop series that begun in 2016. Previous workshops are:

Accommodation

Nordita provides a limited number of rooms in the Stockholm apartment hotel BizApartments free of charge for accepted participants.

Please be aware that unfortunately, scammers sometimes approach participants claiming to be able to provide accommodation and asking for credit card details. Please do not give this information to them. For successful applicants, Nordita will be in touch via email regarding accommodation. If you are in any doubt about the legitimacy of an approach, please get in contact with the organisers.

Sponsored by:

Nordita Uppsala UniversityKnut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse

Poster
    • 9:15 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcome 15m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Henrik Johansson
    • 9:30 AM 10:20 AM
      Perturbative Gravity from Gauge Theory 50m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Zvi Bern
      Slides
    • 10:20 AM 10:50 AM
      Coffee Break 30m AlbaNova

      AlbaNova

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 10:50 AM 11:40 AM
      The Need for High-Precision Gravitational Waveforms 50m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno
      Slides
    • 11:40 AM 12:10 PM
      Gravitational Radiation from Color-Kinematics Duality 30m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Chia-Hsien Shen
      Slides
    • 12:10 PM 4:30 PM
      Lunch and Free Activities 4h 20m AlbaNova & Nordita

      AlbaNova & Nordita

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      The Gravitational Collider: The Future of Precision GW Physics 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Rafael Porto
      Slides
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Connections between amplitudes and classical gravity 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Jan Steinhoff
    • 5:30 PM 5:55 PM
      Radiation of scalar modes and the classical double copy 25m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
      Slides
    • 6:15 PM 9:00 PM
      Reception - Food and Drinks 2h 45m AlbaNova 4th floor (AlbaNova Building)

      AlbaNova 4th floor

      AlbaNova Building

    • 9:30 AM 10:20 AM
      Topics in Supergravity 50m FA32 (AlbaNova Building)

      FA32

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Radu Roiban
      Slides
    • 10:20 AM 10:50 AM
      Coffee Break 30m AlbaNova

      AlbaNova

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 10:50 AM 11:15 AM
      Five Loops in N=8 Supergravity 25m FA32 (AlbaNova Building)

      FA32

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Alexander Edison
      Slides
    • 11:15 AM 11:40 AM
      SQCD Meets SUGRA at Two Loops 25m FA32 (AlbaNova Building)

      FA32

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Gregor Kälin
      Slides
    • 11:40 AM 12:05 PM
      Spinor-helicity meets Petrov 25m FA32 (AlbaNova Building)

      FA32

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Isobel NICHOLSON
      Slides
    • 12:05 PM 4:30 PM
      Lunch and Free Activities 4h 25m AlbaNova & Nordita

      AlbaNova & Nordita

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      From Gluon Scattering to Black Hole Orbits 30m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Clifford Cheung
      Slides
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      The 6d Polarized Scattering Equations 30m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Yvonne Geyer
    • 10:10 AM 11:00 AM
      Quantum Amplitudes for Classical Physics 50m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Donal O'Connell
      Slides
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee Break 30m AlbaNova (AlbaNova Building)

      AlbaNova

      AlbaNova Building

    • 11:30 AM 12:20 PM
      From Coalescing Binary Black Holes to Quantum Amplitudes and Back 50m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Thibault Damour
      Slides
    • 12:20 PM 4:30 PM
      Lunch and Free Activities 4h 10m AlbaNova & Nordita

      AlbaNova & Nordita

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Closed string amplitudes from single-valued correlation functions 30m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Pierre Vanhove
      Slides
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      The energy-energy correlation in QCD 30m FD5 (AlbaNova Building)

      FD5

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Lance Dixon
      Slides
    • 9:30 AM 10:00 AM
      String amplitudes from field-theory building blocks 30m FB42

      FB42

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Oliver Schlotterer
    • 10:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Field theories from string integrands via IBP relations 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Fei Teng
      Slides
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee Break 30m AlbaNova (AlbaNova Building)

      AlbaNova

      AlbaNova Building

    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      The single copy of an instanton 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Christopher White
    • 11:30 AM 11:55 AM
      New results for 5 loop massless propagators integrals 25m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Alessandro Georgoudis
      Slides
    • 11:55 AM 12:25 PM
      Kinematical Algebra Beyond the MHV Sector 30m FB42

      FB42

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Tianheng Wang
      Slides
    • 12:25 PM 4:30 PM
      Lunch and Free Activities 4h 5m AlbaNova & Nordita

      AlbaNova & Nordita

      Nordita, Stockholm

    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Decoding the Cosmological Polytopes: Cosmological Observables and the Flat Space Physics 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Paolo Benincasa
      Slides
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Plane-wave backgrounds and colour-kinematics duality 30m FB42 (AlbaNova Building)

      FB42

      AlbaNova Building

      Speaker: Eduardo Casali
      Slides
    • 10:10 AM 10:40 AM
      More on the no-precession of supersymmetric black holes 30m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Simon Caron-Huot
      Slides
    • 10:40 AM 11:10 AM
      On massless tree level S-matrix in 2d sigma models 30m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Arkady Tseytlin
      Slides
    • 11:10 AM 11:30 AM
      Coffee Break 20m AlbaNova (AlbaNova Building)

      AlbaNova

      AlbaNova Building

    • 11:30 AM 12:00 PM
      Perturbative construction of gravity action via BRST ghosts 30m Oscar Klein Aud.

      Oscar Klein Aud.

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Silvia Nagy
      Slides
    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      Some remarks on finite size effects 30m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Ira Rothstein
    • 12:30 PM 1:00 PM
      Do We Kerr ? 30m Oscar Klein Aud

      Oscar Klein Aud

      Nordita, Stockholm

      Speaker: Michele Levi
      Slides
    • 1:00 PM 6:00 PM
      Lunch and Free Activities 5h AlbaNova & Nordita

      AlbaNova & Nordita

      Nordita, Stockholm