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Massless-Massive Amplitude Correspondence II: Constructive Massive Amplitudes in Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the minimal helicity-chirality formalism, we systematically construct higher-point massive amplitudes from the fundamental building blocks: the contact three-point and four-point massive amplitudes. The inclusion of four-point contact amplitudes is essential to maintain gauge invariance in the spontaneously broken Standard Model. We construct all the standard model massive contact amplitudes and identify the physical light-cone gauge nature of massive amplitudes. Then only using the contact minimal helicity-chirality amplitudes at the leading order, we show both bootstrap techniques and on-shell recursion relations can be utilized to compute higher-point massive amplitudes. This provides a systematic framework for constructing various higher-point electroweak amplitudes, analogous to established on-shell methods for massless theories. Finally by deforming the gauge-invariant nn-point amplitudes, we extend the massless-massive correspondence from three-and-four point contact amplitudes to general nn-point factorized amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2601.10622,
  title  = {Massless-Massive Amplitude Correspondence II: Constructive Massive Amplitudes in Standard Model},
  author = {Yu-Han Ni and Chao Wu and Jiang-Hao Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10622},
  year   = {2026}
}

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126 pages, 8 figures

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