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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 perform a comprehensive study of on-shell recursion relations for Born amplitudes in spontaneously broken gauge theories and identify the minimal shifts required to construct amplitudes with a given particle content and spin quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Robert Franken , Christian Schwinn

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

Quantum scattering amplitudes for massive matter have received new attention in connection to classical calculations relevant to gravitational-wave physics. Amplitude methods and insights are now employed for precision computations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

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

We study the compatibility of recursive techniques with the classical limit of scattering amplitudes through the construction of the classical Compton amplitude for general spinning compact objects. This is done using BCFW recursion on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Kays Haddad

We construct a candidate tree-level gravitational Compton amplitude for a rotating Kerr black hole, for any quantum spin s=0,1/2,1,...,$\infty$, from which we extract the corresponding classical amplitude to all orders in the spin vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

We develop massive higher-spin theory as a framework for describing dynamics of rotating compact objects, such as Kerr black holes. In this paper, we explore gauge interactions up to quartic order and corresponding Compton amplitudes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Lucile Cangemi , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov , Paolo Pichini , Evgeny Skvortsov

We compute the classical tree-level five-point amplitude for the two-to-two scattering of spinning celestial objects with the emission of a graviton. Using this five-point amplitude, we then turn to the computation of the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

In this paper, we explore the physics of electromagnetically and gravitationally coupled massive higher spin states from the on-shell point of view. Starting with the three-point amplitude, we focus on the simplest amplitude which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim , Sangmin Lee

We study "on-shell constructibility" of tree amplitudes from recursion relations in general 4-dimensional local field theories with any type of particles, both massless and massive. Our analysis applies to renormalizable as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Timothy Cohen , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier

The purely on-shell approach to effective field theories requires the construction of independent contact terms. Employing the little-group-covariant massive-spinor formalism, we present the first systematic derivation of independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Camila S. Machado , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

In this work, we write down an analytic expression of electromagnetic tree-level Compton amplitude for a completely symmetric traceless (bosonic) higher spin particle in any dimension. Our analysis is restricted to the three-point function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-10 Aakash Kumar , Arnab Rudra , Manav Shah , Rahul Shaw

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 construct two and three-line shifts for tree-level amplitude with massless and/or massive particles, and provide a method to construct general multi-line shifts for all masses. We choose the massless-massive BCFW shift from these shifts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Chao Wu , Shou-Hua Zhu

The classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables, we derive spurious-pole-free, all-spin opposite-helicity Compton amplitudes (factorizing on physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

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 provide a new set of on-shell recursion relations for tree-level scattering amplitudes, which are valid for any non-trivial theory of massless particles. In particular, we reconstruct the scattering amplitudes from (a subset of) their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

We explore the on-shell recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes with massive spinning particles. Based on the factorization structure encoded in the same way by two different recursion relations, we conjecture an all-multiplicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-03 Achilleas Lazopoulos , Alexander Ochirov , Canxin Shi
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