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The chirality-flow formalism for the standard model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-03-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a recent paper we introduced the chirality-flow formalism, a method for simple and transparent calculations of Feynman diagrams based on the left- and right-chiral sl(2,C)\mathrm{sl}(2,\mathbb{C}) nature of spacetime. While our previous work focused on massless QED and QCD at tree-level, we here extend the chirality-flow formalism to the full (tree-level) Standard Model, including massive particles and electroweak interactions -- for which the WW-interaction simplifies elegantly due to its chiral nature. We illustrate how values of Feynman diagrams can be immediately written down with some representative examples.

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@article{arxiv.2011.10075,
  title  = {The chirality-flow formalism for the standard model},
  author = {Joakim Alnefjord and Andrew Lifson and Christian Reuschle and Malin Sjodahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10075},
  year   = {2023}
}

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35 pages, published version with fixed missing factor of 1/\sqrt{2} in VVV vertex in table 4

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