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Cut and compute: Quick cascades with multiple amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-22 v1

Abstract

In an earlier paper we have proposed a novel method to compute the decay width for a general 1n1\to n cascade decay where the propagators are off-shell and may be of different spins. Here, we extend our algorithm to accommodate those decays that are mediated by more than one such cascades. This generalizes our prescription and widens its applicability. We compute the three- and four-body toy decay chains where identical final states appear through different cascades. Here, we also provide the algorithm to calculate the interference terms. For four-body decays we discuss both symmetric and asymmetric cascades, providing the expressions for the detailed phase space structure in each case. We find that the results obtained with this algorithm have a very impressive agreement with those from standard softwares using a sophisticated Monte Carlo based phase space integration.

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@article{arxiv.1703.07174,
  title  = {Cut and compute: Quick cascades with multiple amplitudes},
  author = {Joydeep Chakrabortty and Anirban Kundu and Rinku Maji and Tripurari Srivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07174},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, 11 figures, pdflatex

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