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We present an alternative approach for calculating helicity amplitudes for processes involving both massless and massive fermions. With this method one can easily obtain covariant expressions for the helicity amplitudes. The final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. Vega , J. Wudka

I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott

We examine recent advancements of the spinor helicity formalism of massive particles. Technical aspects about the formulation of massive helicity spinors are presented in detail to analyze the projective-geometry kinematics of helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Camille Gomez-Laberge

In $D=2+1$ dimensions, elementary particles of a given helicity can be described by local Lagrangians (parity singlets). By means of a "soldering" procedure two opposite helicities can be joined together and give rise to massive spin-$s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 D. Dalmazi , A. L. R. dos Santos , R. R. Lino dos Santos

We present SpinorsExtras package implementing massive spinor-helicity formalism in Mathematica on top of S@M package. Package defines new objects for Mathematica - massive spinors and reference, associated and polarization vectors. Various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Jakub Kuczmarski

We introduce photon and gluon propagators in which the scalar polarization component is subtracted systematically by making use of the BRST invariance of the off-shell vector boson created from physical on-shell states. The propagator has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Kaoru Hagiwara , Junichi Kanzaki , Kentarou Mawatari

The Weyl-van-der-Waerden spinor technique for calculating helicity amplitudes of massive and massless particles is presented in a form that is particularly well suited to a direct implementation in computer algebra. Moreover, we explain how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-11 Stefan Dittmaier

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

A method to efficiently compute, in a automatic way, helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes at leading order in the Standard Model is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

The novel massive spinor-helicity formalism of Arkani-Hamed, Huang and Huang provides an elegant way to calculate scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics for arbitrary quark spin projections. In this note we compute two families of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 Alexander Ochirov

In this article, we extend the %Weyl-van der Waerden spinor technique for calculating helicity amplitudes to general massive fields of half-integer spins. We find that the little group generators can be represented as first-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-09 Gang Chen , Konstantin G. Savvidy

We present the Fortran code SuSpect version 2.3, which calculates the Supersymmetric and Higgs particle spectrum in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The calculation can be performed in constrained models with universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abdelhak Djouadi , Jean-Loic Kneur , Gilbert Moultaka

Spin-2 particles and in particular gravitons are predicted in many new physics scenarios at the TeV scale. Depending on the details of models such new states might show up as a continuum, massless particles, or TeV scale resonances.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-05 Priscila de Aquino , Kaoru Hagiwara , Qiang Li , Fabio Maltoni

We explore the on-shell recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes with massive spinning particles. Based on the factorization structure encoded in the same way by two different recursion relations, we conjecture an all-multiplicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-03 Achilleas Lazopoulos , Alexander Ochirov , Canxin Shi

In the 5-component representation of weak bosons, the first four components make a Lorentz four vector, representing the transverse and longitudinal polarizations excluding the scalar component of the weak bosons, whereas its fifth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Junmou Chen , Kaoru Hagiwara , Junichi Kanzaki , Kentarou Mawatari

We uncover surprising hidden simplicity in Mellin amplitudes for tree-level AdS holographic correlators for spinning operators, such as AdS "gluons" and "gravitons" (spin 1 and 2). We define Mellin amplitudes with $n$ spinning operators via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Song He , Xiang Li , Yuyu Mo , Dongyu Yang

Using the classical recursion relations we compute scattering amplitudes in a spontaneously broken Gauge-Higgs theory into final states involving high multiplicities of massive vector bosons and Higgs bosons. These amplitudes are computed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Valentin V. Khoze

We discuss our new implementation of the Real-space Electronic Structure method for studying the atomic and electronic structure of infinite periodic as well as finite systems, based on density functional theory. This improved version which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. V. Waghmare , Hanchul Kim , I. J. Park , Normand Modine , P. Maragakis , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present a prescription to calculate manifestly gauge invariant tree-level helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes with off-shell initial-state gluons within the kinematics of high-energy scattering. We show that it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-24 A. van Hameren , P. Kotko , K. Kutak

The factorization of multi-leg gauge theory amplitudes in the soft and collinear limits provides strong constraints on the structure of amplitudes, and enables efficient calculations of multi-jet observables at the LHC. There is significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Arindam Bhattacharya , Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Gherardo Vita