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Abstract
In his twistor-particle programme of the 1970's, Roger Penrose introduced a representation of the massive particle phase space in terms of a pair of twistors subject to an internal symmetry group. Here we use this representation to introduce a chiral string whose target is a complexification of this space, extended so as to incorporate supersymmetry. We show that the gauge anomalies associated to the internal symmetry group vanish only for maximal supersymmetry, and that correlators in these string models describe amplitudes involving massive particles with manifest supersymmetry. The models and amplitude formulae exhibit a double copy structure from gauge theory on the Coulomb branch to gravity, although the graviton remains massless. The formulae are closely related to those obtained earlier by the authors expressed in terms of the polarised scattering equations.
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Scope
Geometrical methods in mathematical physics
Lie theory and differential equations
Classical and quantum integrable systems
Algebraic methods in dynamical systems and chaos
Exactly and quasi-exactly solvable models
Lie groups and algebras, representation theory
Orthogonal polynomials and special functions
Integrable probability and stochastic processes
Quantum algebras, quantum groups and their representations
Symplectic, Poisson and noncommutative geometry
Algebraic geometry and its applications
Quantum field theories and string/gauge theories
Statistical physics and condensed matter physics
Quantum gravity and cosmology.