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Cross Section Evaluation by Spinor Integration I: The massless case in 4D

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-06 v3

Abstract

To get the total cross section of one interaction from its amplitude M{\cal M}, one needs to integrate M2|{\cal M}|^2 over phase spaces of all out-going particles. Starting from this paper, we will propose a new method to perform such integrations, which is inspired by the reduced phase space integration of one-loop unitarity cut developed in the last few years. The new method reduces one constrained three-dimension momentum space integration to an one-dimensional integration, plus one possible Feynman parameter integration. There is no need to specify a reference framework in our calculation, since every step is manifestly Lorentz invariant by the new method. The current paper is the first paper of a series for the new method. Here we have exclusively focused on massless particles in 4D. There is no need to carve out a complicated integration region in the phase space for this particular simple case because the integration region is always simply [0,1][0,1].

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.2715,
  title  = {Cross Section Evaluation by Spinor Integration I: The massless case in 4D},
  author = {Bo Feng and Rijun Huang and Yin Jia and Mingxing Luo and Honghui Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2715},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

28 pages, 1 figure; further comments and references added; Appendix B added

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