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We present a method for symbolic calculation of Feynman amplitudes for processes involving both massless and massive fermions. With this approach fermion strings in a specific amplitude can be easily evaluated and expressed as basic Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cong-Feng Qiao

We present analytical results for all six-photon helicity amplitudes. For the computation of this loop induced process two recently developed methods, based on form factor decomposition and on multiple cuts, have been used. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia

Using the newly modified method developed for symbolic evaluation of Feynman amplitudes we examine two processes $2\to 2$ (including a case of Majorana fermions) at a tree level. Constructing special polarization basis for spinor particles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Cherzor

We derive the separate helicity amplitudes involving the partial wave analysis in the process of pseudo-scalar meson photon productions with $J^P=3/2^+$, which is independent on model. According to parity, the general amplitude in the case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-24 Leihua Liu , Liye Xiao

The spinor helicity formalism (SHF) has been efficiently applied to compute perturbative amplitudes in plenty of processes and reactions in gauge theories (including gravity), mostly in the massless case. Some work has been done in order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Bryan O. Larios

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

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

A method to efficiently compute, in a automatic way, helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes at leading order in the Standard Model is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

In view of the forthcoming High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, next-to-next-to-next-to-leading (N$^3$LO) calculations for the most phenomenologically relevant processes become necessary. In this work, we take the first step towards this goal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Thomas Gehrmann , Petr Jakubčík , Cesare Carlo Mella , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Lorenzo Tancredi

In this paper, we present an improvement of a method for computing scattering amplitudes that include external (polarized) fermions with the following features: the formulas are quite general and work for different kinematic configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Chopin

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

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytically the one-loop helicity amplitudes for the process $q\bar{q} rightarrow t\bar{t}$ induced by KK gluon, using the spinor-helicity formalism. A minimal set of Feynman rules which are uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Liang Dai , Jun Gao , Jian Wang , C. -P. Yuan

A method is developed whereby spinor helicity techniques can be used to simplify the calculation of loop amplitudes. This is achieved by using the Feynman-parameter representation where the offending off-shell loop momenta do not appear.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. S. Lam

We review recent developments for the calculation of Born amplitudes in QCD. This includes the computation of gluon helicity amplitudes from MHV vertices and an approach based on scalar propagators and a set of three- and four-valent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We compute the helicity amplitudes for the processes $gg\to Zg$ and $gg\to Z\gamma$ to two loops in massless QCD. The perturbative expansion of these processes starts only at the one-loop level, such that our results are a crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-21 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

We present a new variant of the spinor techniques for calculating the amplitudes of processes involving massive fermions with arbitrary polarization. It is relatively simple and leads to basic spinor products. Our procedure is not more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Andreev

In this work, we consider scattering amplitudes relevant for high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) phenomenology. We analyse the general structure of amplitudes, and we review state-of-the-art methods for computing them. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Piotr Bargiela

We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-05 Etienne Blanco , Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak

We use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for $n$-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

Single top quark production at hadron colliders allows a direct measurement of the top quark charged current coupling. We present the complete tree-level helicity amplitudes for four processes involving the production and semileptonic decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. van der Heide , E. Laenen , L. Phaf , S. Weinzierl