Reggeon webs, spin chains and the Odderon

Abstract

At high center-of-mass energies scattering amplitudes enjoy a hidden integrability. An important example in QCD is Odderon exchange, a composite state of three reggeized gluons, with can be understood as a closed spin chain with periodic boundary conditions. In the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory a similar open spin chain appears for the planar eight-point amplitude. We solve these two examples in transverse momentum and rapidity space, introducing the concept of weighted graph complexity and its associated emerging scaling laws.

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, proceedings of the conference "Hadron Structure and QCD: from Low to High Energies", Gatchina, Russia, August 6-10, 2018. Dedicated to the memory of Lev N. Lipatov