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We develop a general formalism for computing classical observables for relativistic scattering of spinning particles, directly from on-shell amplitudes. We then apply this formalism to minimally coupled Einstein-gravity amplitudes for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell , Justin Vines

In the framework of the pure spinor approach of superstring theories, we describe the Y-formalism and use it to compute the picture raised b-field. At the end we discuss briefly the new, non-minimal formalism of Berkovits and the related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ichiro Oda , Mario Tonin

We present an analytic reconstruction of one-loop amplitudes for the process $0 \to \bar{q}qt\bar{t}H$. Our calculation is a novel use of analytic reconstruction, retaining explicit covariance in the massive spin states through the massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rutger Boels , Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

Scattering of 2 particles of spin 0 and 1/2 is evaluated based on a basis constructed from the momentum and the helicity states (the momentum-helicity basis). This shortly called three-dimensional (3D) technique is a good alternative to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-12-10 I. Fachruddin , I. Abdulrahman

Starting from the continuum definition of helicity, we derive from first principles its different contributions for superfluid vortices. Our analysis shows that an internal twist contribution emerges naturally from the mathematical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Hayder Salman

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

Spinorial tools have recently come back to fashion in loop gravity and spin foams. They provide an elegant tool relating the standard holonomy-flux algebra to the twisted geometry picture of the classical phase space on a fixed graph, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-17 Maite Dupuis , Simone Speziale , Johannes Tambornino

On-shell helicity methods provide powerful tools for determining scattering amplitudes, which have a one-to-one correspondence with leading power helicity operators in the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) away from singular regions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Daniel W. Kolodrubetz , Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart

This thesis discusses how the pure spinor formalism can be used to efficiently compute superstring scattering amplitudes. We emphasize the pure spinor superspace form of the kinematic factors, where the simplifying features of this language…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-26 Carlos R. Mafra

We present the development of the realistic geometro-hydrodynamical formalism of quantum mechanics for the spinning particle, that involves the vortical flows and is based on the idea, that the spinor wave represents a new type of physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

We analyze the current matrix elements in the general collinear (Breit) frames and find the relation between the ordinary (or canonical) helicity amplitudes and the light-front helicity amplitudes. Using the conservation of angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl E. Carlson , Chueng-Ryong Ji

Different bases for the spin-1 density matrix are discussed to clarify the connection between its components and observables measured in heavy-ion collisions. The theoretical advantage of using the adjoint representation for spin matrices…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

Kinetic helicity is one of the invariants of the Euler equations that is associated with the topology of vortex lines within the fluid. In superfluids, the vorticity is concentrated along vortex filaments. In this setting, helicity would be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-01 R. Hänninen , N. Hietala , H. Salman

A twistorial formulation of a particle of arbitrary spin has been constructed. Equations of the twistor formulation are obtained for massive and massless spinning particles. The twistor space of the massive particle is formed by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Fedoruk , V. G. Zima

The problem of finding general quartic interaction terms between fields of higher helicities on the light-front is discussed from the point of view of calculating the corresponding amplitudes directly from the cubic vertices using BCFW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Anders K. H. Bengtsson

The concept of phase space amplitudes for systems with continuous degrees of freedom is generalized to finite-dimensional spin systems. Complex amplitudes are obtained on both a sphere and a finite lattice, in each case enabling a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 P Watson , A J Bracken

Effective Field Theories such as HEFT, organized as momentum expansions, are a controllable approximation to strong dynamics only near threshold, as they miss exact elastic unitarity, reducing their predictive power at a higher scale if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

The recently proposed differential homotopy approach to the analysis of nonlinear higher spin theory is developed. The Ansatz is extended to the form applicable in the second order of the perturbation theory and general star-multiplication…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 P. T. Kirakosiants , D. A. Valerev , M. A. Vasiliev

We use the worldline path-integral approach to the Bern-Kosower formalism for developing a new algorithm for calculation of the sum of all diagrams with one spinor loop and fixed numbers of external and internal photons. The method is based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael G. Schmidt , Christian Schubert