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In this short note we present a Lagrangian formulation for free bosonic Higher Spin fields which belong to massless reducible representations of D-dimensional Anti de Sitter group using an ambient space formalism.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Fotopoulos , K. L. Panigrahi , M. Tsulaia

We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in $D=6$ dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Rishabh Jha , Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar

The N = 1 superfield formalism in four-dimensions is well formulated and understood, yet there remain unsolved problems. In this thesis, superfield actions for free massless and massive higher spin superfield theories are formulated in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Phillips

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

Helicity is a useful concept both for AdS${}_4$ and CFT${}_3$ studies. We work out the complete AdS${}_4$/CFT${}_3$ dictionary for spinning fields/operators in the spinor-helicity base that allows one to scalarize any $n$-point contact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Evgeny Skvortsov , Yihao Yin

The spinor helicity formalism (SHF) has been efficiently applied to compute perturbative amplitudes in plenty of processes and reactions in gauge theories (including gravity), mostly in the massless case. Some work has been done in order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Bryan O. Larios

We use the non-minimal pure spinor formalism to compute in a super-Poincare covariant manner the four-point massless one and two-loop open superstring amplitudes, and the gauge anomaly of the six-point one-loop amplitude. All of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan Berkovits , Carlos R. Mafra

We develop a formalism, based on spinor-helicity techniques, to generalize the formulation of partial wave unitarity bounds. We discuss unitarity bounds for $N \to M$ (with $N,M \geq 2$) scattering processes -- relevant for high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Luigi C. Bresciani , Gabriele Levati , Paride Paradisi

We present the dictionary between the one-particle Hilbert spaces of totally symmetric tensor-spinor fields of spin $s={3}/{2}, {5}/{2}$ with any mass parameter on $D$-dimensional ($D \geq 3$) de Sitter space ($dS_{D}$) and Unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Vasileios A. Letsios

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

We employ the worldline formalism to derive a series representation of the low-energy limit of the N -photon amplitude in a constant background field for both scalar and spinor QED. The amplitudes are then written in terms of a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Misha A. Lopez-Lopez

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

We develop the embedding formalism to describe symmetric traceless tensors in Anti-de Sitter space. We use this formalism to construct the bulk-to-bulk propagator of massive spin J fields and check that it has the expected short distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Penedones

Closed forms are derived for the effective actions for free, massive spinless fields in anti-de Sitter spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions. The results have simple expressions in terms of elementary functions (for odd dimensions) or multiple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kamela , C. P. Burgess

We show how the space spinor formalism for 2-component spinors can be used to construct estimates for spinor fields satisfying first order equations. We discuss the connection of the approach presented in this article with other strategies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Mariem Magdy , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We propose a new helicity formalism based on the formal insertion in spinor lines of a complete set of states build up with unphysical spinors. The method is developed both for massless and massive fermions for which it turns out to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Ballestrero , E. Maina

Manifestly Lorentz covariant Feynman rules are given in terms of a "scalar" field for each helicity, dramatically simplifying the calculation of amplitudes with massless particles. The spinor helicity formalism is properly identified as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordon Chalmers , Warren Siegel

Quantum field theory in the $4$-dimensional de Sitter space-time is constructed in the ambient space formalism in a rigorous mathematical framework. This work is based on the group representation theory and the analyticity of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Mohammad Vahid Takook

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dS$_{d+1}$ in a coordinate and index free formalism using a $d+2$ dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Ben Pethybridge , Vladimir Schaub

Processes involving electroweak vector bosons in association with jets are crucial for precision studies of the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Accurate predictions for the process $pp\rightarrow V(\rightarrow\bar\ell\ell)jj$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Giuseppe De Laurentis