Friday, November 9, 2012

1211.1880 (Francesco Coradeschi et al.)

Selection rules for helicity amplitudes in massive gauge theories    [PDF]

Francesco Coradeschi, Paolo Lodone
After a rediscussion of the vanishing theorems for helicity amplitudes in unbroken gauge theories, we study the case of spontaneously broken gauge theories at high energy. The vanishing theorems generalize to a well-defined pattern of m/E-suppression of the amplitudes that vanish in the massless case, where E is the energy scale of the process and m is the mass of the gauge vectors. We use only elementary arguments, and as an application we show how these methods can be employed to understand some aspects of the effective W approximation in the polarized case.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1880

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