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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 scattering amplitudes of mass-deformed Chern-Simons theories and Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with N=2 supersymmetry in three dimensions. In particular, we derive the on-shell supersymmetry algebras which underlie the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Abhishek Agarwal , Arthur E. Lipstein , Donovan Young

Off-shell higher spin N=2 supermultiplets in three spacetime dimensions (3D) are presented in this paper. We propose gauge prepotentials for higher spin superconformal gravity and construct the corresponding gauge-invariant field strengths,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Daniel X. Ogburn

On-shell, analytic S-matrix elements in massless theories are constructed from a finite set of primitive three-point amplitudes, which are fixed by Poincare invariance up to an overall numerical constant. We classify \emph{all} such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 David A. McGady , Laurentiu Rodina

Based on the general principles of Lorentz symmetry and unitary, we introduce two consistency conditions -- on-shell gauge symmetry and strong massive-massless continuation -- in constructing amplitudes of massive gauge theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Junmou Chen

We analyze quartic gauge-invariant interactions of massless higher spin fields by using vertex operators constructed in our previous works and computing their four-point amplitudes in superstring theory. The kinematic part of the quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Dimitri Polyakov

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

An on-shell formalism for the computation of S-matrices of SYM theories in three spacetime dimensions is presented. The framework is a generalization of the spinor-helicity formalism in four dimensions. The formalism is applied to establish…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-03 Abhishek Agarwal , Donovan Young

We present, for the first time, the complete off-shell $4D, {\cal N}=2$ superfield actions for any free massless integer spin ${\bf s} \geq 2$ fields, using the ${\cal N}=2$ harmonic superspace approach. The relevant gauge supermultiplet is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Ioseph Buchbinder , Evgeny Ivanov , Nikita Zaigraev

We study the relation between a supermatrix model and the free 4D, N=1 supersymmetric field theory of a massless supermultiplet with spins (3, 5/2). In order to do this, we construct a superfield formulation of the theory. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Takashi Saitou

We study scattering equations and formulas for tree amplitudes of various theories in four dimensions, in terms of spinor helicity variables and on-shell superspace for supersymmetric theories. As originally obtained in Witten's twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Song He , Zhengwen Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

We compute partition functions describing multiplicities and charges of massless and first massive string states of pure-spinor superstrings in 3,4,6,10 dimensions. At the massless level we find a spin-one gauge multiplet of minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Grassi , J. F. Morales Morera

We use the recently proposed generalised on-shell representation for scattering amplitudes and a consistency test to explore the space of tree-level consistent couplings in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

The present thesis is divided into three parts. In Part I we address a problem within Higher-Spin Gauge Theory in dimension three: namely, that of computing the asymptotic symmetry algebra of supersymmetric models, describing an infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-23 Gustavo Lucena Gómez

Realization of the conformal higher spin symmetry on the 4d massless field supermultiplets is given. The self-conjugated supermultiplets, including the linearized ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory, are considered in some detail. Duality between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 M. A. Vasiliev

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 consider unconstrained formulation of the higher spin gauge theory in anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, given by actions [1, 2], and provide on-shell supersymmetry transformations for the $\mathcal{N}=1$ unconstrained massless higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Mojtaba Najafizadeh

We explore the space of non-gravitational, maximally supersymmetric, planar 4d effective field theories (EFTs) that have $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) at leading order. We show that in the weakly-coupled regime, highly non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Henriette Elvang , Aidan Herderschee , Roger Morales

Assuming locality, Lorentz invariance and parity conservation we obtain a set of differential equations governing the 3-point interactions of massless bosons, which in turn determines the polynomial ring of these amplitudes. We derive all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Zhengdi Sun , Hui Xu , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung

We propose a new, chiral description for massive higher-spin particles in four spacetime dimensions, which facilitates the introduction of consistent interactions. As proof of concept, we formulate three theories, in which higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander Ochirov , Evgeny Skvortsov