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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

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

We introduce a manifestly little group covariant on-shell superspace for massive particles in four dimensions using the massive spinor helicity formalism. This enables us to construct massive on-shell superfields and fully utilize on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Aidan Herderschee , Seth Koren , Timothy Trott

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 the minimal helicity-chirality formalism, we systematically construct higher-point massive amplitudes from the fundamental building blocks: the contact three-point and four-point massive amplitudes. The inclusion of four-point contact…

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

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

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 derive the contact terms contributing to the four-point amplitudes of the standard-model particles, keeping terms with up to quartic energy growth. Imposing just the unbroken low-energy symmetry, and treating the electroweak gauge bosons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yael Shadmi , Michael Waterbury

We construct tree-level amplitude for massive particles using on-shell recursion relations based on two classes of momentum shifts: an all-line transverse shift that deforms momentum by its transverse polarization vector, and a massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Ishmam Mahbub

We employ on-shell methods to construct scattering amplitudes and derive effective theories involving massive spin-3/2 fermions interacting with spin 0, 1 and 2 bosons. The four-point massive amplitudes are constructed using an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

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

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

We study the All-Line Transverse (ALT) shift which we developed for on-shell recursion of amplitudes for particles of any mass. We discuss the validity of the shift for general theories of spin $\leq$ 1, and illustrate the connection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Ishmam Mahbub

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

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 study the three-particle and four-particle scattering amplitudes for an arbitrary, finite number of massive scalars, spinors and vectors by employing the on-shell massive spinor formalism. We consider the most general three-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Da Liu , Zhewei Yin

We present a map between the tree-level Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT) in the Warsaw basis and massive on-shell amplitudes. As a first step, we focus on the electroweak sector without fermions. We describe the Feynman rules for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Rafael Aoude , Camila S. Machado

We make an explicit link between the cubic interactions of off-shell fields and the on-shell three-point amplitudes in four dimensions. Both the cubic interactions and the on-shell three-point amplitudes had been independently classified in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Eduardo Conde , Euihun Joung , Karapet Mkrtchyan

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

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
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