**CANCELLED** Mock string theory
- đ¤ Speaker: Steven Abel (Durham)
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
- đ Venue: MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS
Abstract
Is it possible to find a particle theory that behaves like a string theory? In this talk I review attempts to do this in the past and present more recent activity that uses the world line description of particle physics. This formalism allows the definition of a class of world-line theories that have the same UV complete properties as string theory. It turns out that these theories are related to a class of ghost-free infinite derivative theories inspired by string field theory. It is also possible to find particle theories that reproduce the dominant behaviour of string scattering amplitudes at high energies.
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Steven Abel (Durham)
Thursday 12 March 2020, 16:00-17:00