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About helicity conservation in gauge boson scattering at high energy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We remark that the high energy gauge boson scattering processes involving two-body initial and final states, satisfy certain selection rules described as helicity conservation of the \underline{gauge boson} amplitudes (GBHC). These rules are valid at Born level, as well as at the level of the leading and sub-leading 1-loop logarithmic corrections, in both the Standard Model (SM) and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). A "fermionic equivalence" theorem is also proved, which suggests that GBHC is valid at all orders in MSSM at sufficiently high energies, where the mass suppressed contributions are neglected.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501046,
  title  = {About helicity conservation in gauge boson scattering at high energy},
  author = {G. J. Gounaris and F. M. Renard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501046},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters