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Partial wave decomposition is one of the main tools within the modern S-matrix studies. We present a method to compute partial waves for $2\to2$ scattering of spinning particles in arbitrary spacetime dimension. We identify partial waves as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Ilija Buric , Francesco Russo , Alessandro Vichi

We consider the scattering of fermions off antifermions with spin 1/2 and 3/2. Starting from helicity partial-wave scattering amplitudes we derive transformations that eliminate all kinematical constraints. Such amplitudes are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Stoica , M. F. M. Lutz , O. Scholten

Precision studies of scattering processes at colliders provide powerful indirect constraints on new physics. We study the helicity structure of scattering amplitudes in the SM and in the context of an effective Lagrangian description of BSM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-29 Aleksandr Azatov , Roberto Contino , Camila S. Machado , Francesco Riva

We derive the complete set of partial wave unitarity bounds on the most general Axion-Like Particle (ALP) effective interactions up to dimension 8 in the limit of large center-of-mass energy. Exploiting a recently developed formalism based…

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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

Four-particle tree-level scattering amplitudes in string theory are magically consistent with unitarity, reflected in the non-trivial fact that beneath the critical dimension, the residues of the amplitudes on massive poles can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lorenz Eberhardt , Yu-tin Huang , Sebastian Mizera

In this work we analyse the constraints imposed by Poincar\'e symmetry on the gravitational form factors appearing in the Lorentz decomposition of the energy-momentum tensor matrix elements for massive states with arbitrary spin. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-14 Sabrina Cotogno , Cédric Lorcé , Peter Lowdon

Using a new proposal for the "picture lowering" operators, we compute the tree level scattering amplitude in the minimal pure spinor formalism by performing the integration over the pure spinor space as a multidimensional Cauchy-type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-09 Oscar A. Bedoya , Humberto Gomez

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

The fractional moment method, which was initially developed in the discrete context for the analysis of the localization properties of lattice random operators, is extended to apply to random Schr\"odinger operators in the continuum. One of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Aizenman , Alexander Elgart , Sergey Naboko , Jeffrey H. Schenker , Günter Stolz

When utilizing a cluster decomposible relativistic scattering formalism, it is most convenient that the covariant field equations take on a linear form with respect to the energy and momentum dispersion on the fields in the manner given by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Lindesay

We study the emergence of partonic behavior in scattering processes at large Mandelstam's variable $s$ from string amplitudes in holographic backgrounds. We generalize the approach of Polchinski and Strassler (2001) in two ways. (i) We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-17 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

The amplitudes for photoproduction of two pseudoscalars on a nucleon are expanded in the overall c.m. frame in a model independent way with respect to the contribution of the final state partial wave of total angular momentum $J$ and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Fix , H. Arenh"ovel

We study the angular momentum structure of the gauge field in Lorentz covariant relativistic generalized uncertainty principle (RGUP) framework incorporating Planck scale minimal length effects. Using Noether's theorem for higher derivative…

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Semiclassical expansion of the Wigner function for spin-1/2 fermions having an effective spacetime-dependent mass is used to analyze spin-polarization effects. The existing framework is reformulated to obtain a differential equation…

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Starting from positive and negative helicity Maxwell equations expressed in Riemann-Silberstein vectors, we derive the ten usual and ten additional Poincar{\'e} invariants, the latter being related to the electromagnetic spin, i.e., the…

We consider the scattering of two-bosons with negative parity and spin 0 or 1. Starting from helicity partial-wave scattering amplitudes we derive transformations that eliminate all kinematical constraints. Such amplitudes are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 M. F. M. Lutz , I. Vidana

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

We investigate the consequence of the energy-momentum conservation law for the holographic S-matrix from AdS/CFT correspondence. It is shown that the conservation law is not a natural consequence of conformal invariance in the large N…

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