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A Deformation of Twistor Space and a Chiral Mass Term in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

Dah-Wei Chiou, Ori J. Ganor, Bom Soo Kim

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0512242

Abstract

Super twistor space admits a certain (super) complex structure deformation that preserves the Poincare subgroup of the symmetry group PSL(4|4) and depends on 10 parameters. In a previous paper [hep-th/0502076], it was proposed that in twistor string theory this deformation corresponds to augmenting N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by a mass term for the left-chirality spinors. In this paper we analyze this proposal in more detail. We calculate 4-particle scattering amplitudes of fermions, gluons and scalars and show that they are supported on holomorphic curves in the deformed twistor space.

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