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We consider the on-shell amplitudes in N=(1,1) SYM in D=6 dimensions within the spinor helicity and on-shell superspace formalism. This leads to an effective and straightforward technique reducing the calculation to a set of scalar master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko

We present a systematic technique for constructing Lorentz covariant orbital-spin ($LS$) bases for matrix elements of local operators and the associated form factors, thereby extending the traditional multipole expansion to a Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Hong Huang , Tuo Tan , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

We apply on-shell methods to the bottom-up construction of electroweak amplitudes, allowing for both renormalizable and non-renormalizable interactions. We use the little-group covariant massive-spinor formalism, and flesh out some of its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

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

The spinor-helicity formalism is an essential technique of the amplitudes community. We draw on this method to construct a scheme for classifying higher-dimensional spacetimes in the style of the four-dimensional Petrov classification and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Ricardo Monteiro , Isobel Nicholson , Donal O'Connell

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 consequences of on-shell supersymmetry are studied for scattering amplitudes with massive particles in four dimensions. Using the massive version of the spinor helicity formalism the supersymmetry transformations relating products of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-22 Rutger H. Boels , Christian Schwinn

We use on-shell Supersymmetry to constrain the three-point function of two massless particles and one massive particle in 3+1 dimensions. We use this information to write down the tree-level four-point function of massless particles for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Mahesh K. N. Balasubramanian , Kushal Chakraborty , Arnab Rudra , Arnab Priya Saha

In a recent letter we suggested a natural generalization of the flat-space spinor-helicity formalism in four dimensions to anti-de Sitter space. In the present paper we give some technical details that were left implicit previously. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dmitry Ponomarev

The spinor-helicity formalism has become an invaluable tool for understanding the S-matrix of massless particles in four dimensions. In this paper we construct a spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions, and apply it to derive compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 Clifford Cheung , Donal O'Connell

We apply the on-shell amplitude techniques in the domain of dark matter. Without evoking fields and Lagrangians, an effective theory for a massive spin-$S$ particle is defined in terms of on-shell amplitudes, which are written down using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Adam Falkowski , Giulia Isabella , Camila S. Machado

We construct the on-shell amplitude basis and the corresponding effective operators for generic modified gravity theory, such as pure gravity with higher derivatives, scalar-tensor gravity, Einstein-Yang-Mills, etc. Taking the Weyl tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

The simplification and reorganization of complex expressions lies at the core of scientific progress, particularly in theoretical high-energy physics. This work explores the application of machine learning to a particular facet of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Clifford Cheung , Aurélien Dersy , Matthew D. Schwartz

We study on-shell scattering amplitudes for continuous-spin particles (CSPs). Poincar\'e invariance, little-group $ISO(2)$ covariance, analyticity, and on-shell factorisation (unitarity) impose stringent conditions on these amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Brando Bellazzini , Stefano De Angelis , Marcello Romano

We describe a general method that enables us to obtain all the singular terms of helicity amplitudes of n-parton processes at one loop. The algorithm uses helicity amplitudes at tree level and simple color algebra. We illustrate the method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zoltan Kunszt , Adrian Signer , Zoltan Trocsanyi

Many state-of-the-art QCD calculations for multileg processes use helicity amplitudes as their fundamental ingredients. We construct a simple and easy-to-use helicity operator basis in soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), for which the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-11 Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn

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 letter we suggest a natural spinor-helicity formalism for massless fields in AdS${}_4$. It is based on the standard realization of the AdS${}_4$ isometry algebra $so(3,2)$ in terms of differential operators acting on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dmitry Ponomarev

Beyond standard model (BSM) particles should be included in effective field theory in order to compute the scattering amplitudes involving these extra particles. We formulate an extension of Higgs effective field theory which contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ryo Nagai , Masaharu Tanabashi , Koji Tsumura , Yoshiki Uchida

We recursively construct tree-level electromagnetic and gravitational Compton amplitudes of higher-spin massive particles by the all-line transverse momentum shift. With three-point amplitude as input, we demonstrate that higher-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Ishmam Mahbub