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Massive Scattering Amplitudes in Six Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in D=6D=6 dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group, SO(5)Sp(4)SO(5) \sim Sp(4). In the high energy limit, two separate kinds of massless helicity spinors emerge as required for consistency with arXiv:0902.0981, with indices in the two SU(2)SU(2)'s of the massless little group SO(4)SO(4). The tensors of 4{\bf 4} lead to particles with arbitrary spin, and using these and demanding consistent factorization, we can fix 33- and 44-point tree amplitudes of arbitrary masses and spins: we provide examples. We discuss the high energy limit of scattering amplitudes and the Higgs mechanism in this language, and make some preliminary observations about massive BCFW recursion.

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@article{arxiv.1810.11803,
  title  = {Massive Scattering Amplitudes in Six Dimensions},
  author = {Rishabh Jha and Chethan Krishnan and K. V. Pavan Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11803},
  year   = {2019}
}

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37 pages; v2: minor improvements, JHEP version

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