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Connected formulas for amplitudes in standard model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Witten's twistor string theory has led to new representations of S-matrix in massless QFT as a single object, including Cachazo-He-Yuan formulas in general and connected formulas in four dimensions. As a first step towards more realistic processes of the standard model, we extend the construction to QCD tree amplitudes with massless quarks and those with a Higgs boson. For both cases, we find connected formulas in four dimensions for all multiplicities which are very similar to the one for Yang-Mills amplitudes. The formula for quark-gluon color-ordered amplitudes differs from the pure-gluon case only by a Jacobian factor that depends on flavors and orderings of the quarks. In the formula for Higgs plus multi-parton amplitudes, the massive Higgs boson is effectively described by two additional massless legs which do not appear in the Parke-Taylor factor. The latter also represents the first twistor-string/connected formula for form factors.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02843,
  title  = {Connected formulas for amplitudes in standard model},
  author = {Song He and Yong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02843},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures

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