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Massive Helicity-Chirality Spinor Formalism from Massless Amplitudes with On-shell Mass Insertion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We introduce a helicity-chirality spinor formalism to describe scattering amplitudes for particles of any masses and spins. The massive spin-spinors introduced by Arkani-hamed-Huang-Huang have been extended to the spin/helicity-transversality spinors, in which a new quantum number transversality, closely related to chirality, is introduced by extending the Poincare symmetry. The massive helicity-chirality amplitudes can be written by the large and small components of massless spinors λ\lambda and η\eta following the λE,ηm/E\lambda \sim \sqrt{E}, \eta \sim \mathbf{m}/\sqrt{E} expansion order by order, which formulate the power counting rules of a large energy effective theory. Diagrammatically the mass expansion in amplitudes originates from the on-shell mass insertion: the helicity flip and chirality flip, which completely determines the three-point massive amplitudes. From the chirality-helicity unification at the UV, any massive helicity-chirality amplitude can be one-to-one corresponded to massless helicity amplitudes with (without) additional Higgs insertion. This UV-IR correspondence explains the mass enhancement in the weak decay processes π+μ+ν\pi^+ \to \mu^+ \nu and tW+bt \to W^+ b, and isolates the correct UV of the three-point massive QED FFˉγF\bar{F}\gamma amplitudes in Arkani-hamed-Huang-Huang formalism. From massless-massive correspondence, the massless on-shell techniques can be utilized to construct higher-point massive amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09062,
  title  = {Massive Helicity-Chirality Spinor Formalism from Massless Amplitudes with On-shell Mass Insertion},
  author = {Yu-Han Ni and Yi-Ning Wang and Chao Wu and Jiang-Hao Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09062},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

82 pages, 11 figures, with updated references

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