Massive Scattering Amplitudes in Six Dimensions
Abstract
We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group, . In the high energy limit, two separate kinds of massless helicity spinors emerge as required for consistency with arXiv:0902.0981, with indices in the two 's of the massless little group . The tensors of lead to particles with arbitrary spin, and using these and demanding consistent factorization, we can fix and point tree amplitudes of arbitrary masses and spins: we provide examples. We discuss the high energy limit of scattering amplitudes and the Higgs mechanism in this language, and make some preliminary observations about massive BCFW recursion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.11803,
title = {Massive Scattering Amplitudes in Six Dimensions},
author = {Rishabh Jha and Chethan Krishnan and K. V. Pavan Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11803},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
37 pages; v2: minor improvements, JHEP version