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SUMMARY:**CANCELLED** Mock string theory - Steven Abel (Durham)
DTSTART:20200312T160000Z
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CONTACT:Joseph Davighi
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to find a particle theory that behaves like a s
 tring theory? In this talk I review attempts to do this in the past and pr
 esent more recent activity that uses the world line description of particl
 e physics. This formalism allows the definition of a class of world-line t
 heories that have the same UV complete properties as string theory. It tur
 ns out that these theories are related to a class of ghost-free infinite d
 erivative theories inspired by string field theory. It is also possible to
  find particle theories that reproduce the dominant behaviour of string sc
 attering amplitudes at high energies. 
LOCATION:MR19 (Potter Room\, Pavilion B)\, CMS
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