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Tree Amplitudes with Charged Matter in Pure Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We describe the implementation and usage of `fermionic_amplitudes.m', a Mathematica package for the computation of tree amplitudes involving arbitrary numbers of gauge bosons and arbitrarily-charged massless fermions of (possibly) distinct flavours in pure (non-supersymmetric) gauge theory. These are given in terms of a basis of partial amplitudes involving distinct-flavoured fermions dressed by specific colour tensors. Distinct-flavour partial amplitudes are expressed as linear combinations of those involving only a single flavour, which may be evaluated as component amplitudes of (maximally) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. All relevant colour tensors can be realized as explicit, numeric arrays given any choice of charge generators (for any gauge theory -- including u1u_1); from these, all colour contractions relevant to cross sections may be readily computed. The complete package and a notebook demonstrating its primary usage and functionality are included in this work's submission's ancillary files on the arXiv.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.18672,
  title  = {Tree Amplitudes with Charged Matter in Pure Gauge Theory},
  author = {Jacob L. Bourjaily and Michael Plesser and Philip Velie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18672},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

49 pages; 102 figures; Mathematica package `fermionic_amplitudes.m' and walkthrough notebook are available as ancillary files