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We discuss the group theory relevant to the ground-state baryons in large N_c QCD. For very large representation, the group generators become classical variables. We find the form of the classical generators for the completely symmetric N…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Hael Collins , Howard Georgi

We study the on-shell version of the Higgs mechanism in effective theories (EFTs) containing particles of different spins, focusing on contact terms as a simple starting point. We derive the massive contact terms and their coefficients from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-29 Reuven Balkin , Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

In this paper, we propose a method to construct the decay amplitudes in the orbital ($L$) and spin ($S$) coupling scheme for particles with arbitrary spins. For the $1\to 2$ decay with only massive particles involved, the angular dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Xiao-yu Li , Xiang-Kun Dong , Hao-Jie Jing

We present a method for symbolic evaluation of Feynman amplitudes. We construct special polarization basis for spinor particles which produces compact expressions for tensor products of basis spinors.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. S. Cherzor , V. A. Ilyin , A. E. Pukhov

We present an extension of the spinor integration formalism of one loop amplitudes from the double-cut to the single-cut case. This technique can be applied for the computation of the tadpole coefficients. Moreover we describe an off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-14 Ruth Britto , Edoardo Mirabella

The chirality-flow formalism, combined with good choices of gauge reference vectors, simplifies tree-level calculations to the extent that it is often possible to write down amplitudes corresponding to Feynman diagrams immediately. It has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-19 Emil Boman , Andrew Lifson , Malin Sjodahl , Adam Warnerbring , Zenny Wettersten

This thesis discusses how the pure spinor formalism can be used to efficiently compute superstring scattering amplitudes. We emphasize the pure spinor superspace form of the kinematic factors, where the simplifying features of this language…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-26 Carlos R. Mafra

Spinor-valued one-forms (Rarita-Schwinger fields) are normally used in the context of supergravity, where they describe spin 3/2 particles (gravitinos). Indeed, when decomposed into irreducible representations of the Lorentz group such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexander Torres-Gomez , Kirill Krasnov

Recently introduced massive spinors are written as 2-vectors consisting of two massless spinors with opposite helicities. With this notation a couple of relations between them can be derived easily, entirely avoiding the spinor indices. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Clemens Heuson

In this paper, a gauge invariant description of massive higher spin bosonic and fermionic particles in frame-like Lagrangian and unfolded formalism in (A)dS${}_4$ is built. A complete set of gauge invariant object is also constructed and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 M. V. Khabarov , Yu. M Zinoviev

Using Wigner-deformed Heisenberg oscillators, we construct 3D Chern--Simons models consisting of fractional-spin fields coupled to higher-spin gravity and internal non-abelian gauge fields. The gauge algebras consist of Lorentz-tensorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Nicolas Boulanger , Per Sundell , Mauricio Valenzuela

We present for the first time an efficient algorithm to find a basis of kinematically independent structures built of (massless and massive) spinor helicity variables in four dimensions. This method provides a classification of independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Stefano De Angelis

Dynamical Sauter-Schwinger mechanism of electron-positron pair creation by a time-dependent electric field pulses is considered using the $S$-matrix approach and reduction formulas. They lead to the development of framework based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 M. M. Majczak , K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński , A. Bechler

We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

A consistent phenomenology of the interaction of particles of arbitrary spin requires covariant spinors, field operators, propagators and model interactions. Guided by an approach originally proposed by Weinberg, we construct from group…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 D. V. Ahluwalia

We construct the unintegrated vertex operator at the first mass level of the open superstring from the OPE of massless vertices. Using BRST cohomology manipulations, the tree amplitude of two massless and one massive state is rewritten in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Carlos R. Mafra , Mritunjay Verma , Luis Ypanaqué

These notes are based on my lectures given at $\text{ST}^4$ 2025 held at IISER Bhopal. We study the application of spinor and twistor methods to three dimensional conformal field theories in these notes. They are divided into three parts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Dhruva K. S

We develop the formal tools needed to construct helicity amplitudes for massive gravitino in N=1 SUGRA. We start by considering the helicity states for massive spin-3/2 particles, which involves the solutions of Rarita-Schwinger equation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-28 J. Lorenzo Diaz-Cruz , Bryan O. Larios

We derive the stabiliser group of the four-vector, also known as Wigner's little group, in case of massless particle states, as the maximal solvable subgroup of the proper orthochronous Lorentz group of dimension four, known as the Borel…

General Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Stefan Groote , Rein Saar