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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

In this work, the massless-massive correspondence for the on-shell scattering amplitudes is constructed so the massive amplitudes could inherit advantageous techniques developed in the massless calculation. This correspondence is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Yu-Han Ni , Chao Wu , Jiang-Hao Yu

One of the methods to calculate tree-level multi-gluon scattering amplitudes is to use the Berends-Giele recursion relation involving off-shell currents or off-shell amplitudes, if working in the light cone gauge. As shown in recent works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Piotr Kotko , Mirko Serino , Anna M. Stasto

N-extended massless arbitrary integer and half-integer spin supermultiplets in four dimensional flat space are studied in the framework of light-cone gauge formalism. For such multiplets, by using light-cone momentum superspace, we build…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 R. R. Metsaev

We show that 10D spinor helicity formalism can be understood as spinor moving frame approach to supersymmetric particles extended to the description of amplitudes. This allows us to develop the spinor helicity formalism for 11D supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Igor Bandos

We consider massless fields of arbitrary spin in de Sitter space. We introduce a spinor-helicity formalism, which encodes the field data on a cosmological horizon. These variables reduce the free S-matrix in an observer's causal patch, i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-14 Adrian David , Nico Fischer , Yasha Neiman

Lecture notes on Poincar\'e-invariant scattering amplitudes and tree-level recursion relations in spinor-helicity formalism. We illustrate the non-perturbative constraints imposed over on-shell amplitudes by the Lorentz Little Group, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Andrea Marzolla

We consider conformal transitions arising from the merging of IR and UV fixed points, expected to occur in QCD with a large enough number of flavors. We study the smoothness of physical quantities across this transition, being mostly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Alex Pomarol , Lindber Salas

We use on-shell methods to compute all three-point interactions of massive spin-3/2 particles involving a graviton and particles of spin $\leq 1$. By employing the massive spinor-helicity formalism we identify the interactions which have a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-30 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

Totally symmetric arbitrary spin fields in AdS space, conformal fields, conformal currents, and shadow fields in flat space are studied. Light-cone formulation for such fields, currents, and shadows is obtained. Use of the Poincare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 R. R. Metsaev

For obtaining the spin space wave function of the pion meson in the light-cone formalism from the naive quark model, it is necessary to take into account Wigner rotation. Consequently there are higher helicity ($\lambda_1+\lambda_2=\pm 1$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Fuguang Cao , J. Cao , T. Huang , B. Q. Ma

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 propose a covariant orbital-spin ($LS$) decomposed amplitude for the partial wave analysis using the massive spinor-helicity formalism. First we review the traditional-$LS$ method in the little group space and the Zemach tensor method in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Hong Huang , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

We establish a simple formula for the minimal dimension of operators leading to any helicity amplitude. It eases the systematic enumeration of independent operators from the construction of massless non-factorizable on-shell amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-29 Gauthier Durieux , Camila S. Machado

In gauge theories, contact terms play an important role in ensuring gauge invariance. In the spinor helicity formalism, the choice of a gauge-fixing condition manifests itself in the form of the choice of reference vector to write the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Aakash Kumar , Arnab Rudra , Rahul Shaw

The phenomenology of unstable particles, including searches and exclusion limits at the LHC, depends significantly on its lineshape. When the width of the resonance is large with respect to its mass, off-shell effects become relevant and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Diogo Buarque Franzosi , Fabio Maltoni , Cen Zhang

We introduce a helicity-chirality spinor formalism to describe scattering amplitudes for particles of any masses and spins. The massive spin-spinors introduced by Arkani-hamed-Huang-Huang have been extended to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-10 Yu-Han Ni , Yi-Ning Wang , Chao Wu , Jiang-Hao Yu

Totally symmetric arbitrary spin conformal fields propagating in the flat space of even dimension greater than or equal to four are studied. For such fields, we develop a general ordinary-derivative light-cone gauge formalism and obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 R. R. Metsaev

We propose that maximal depth, partially massless, higher spin excitations can mediate charged matter interactions in a de Sitter universe. The proposal is motivated by similarities between these theories and their traditional Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , A. Waldron

Consistent interactions for off-shell fermion fields of arbitrary spin are constructed from the gauge-invariance requirement of the interaction Lagrangians. These interactions play a crucial role in the quantum hadrodynamical description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-07-13 Tom Vrancx , Lesley De Cruz , Jan Ryckebusch , Pieter Vancraeyveld