Consistency conditions on S-matrix of spin 1 massless particles

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2010)015zbMATH Open1290.81171arXiv0811.3210MaRDI QIDQ2016759FDOQ2016759

Song He, Hongbao Zhang

Publication date: 20 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by new techniques in the computation of scattering amplitudes of massless particles in four dimensions, like BCFW recursion relations, the question of how much structure of the S-matrix can be determined from purely S-matrix arguments has received new attention. The BCFW recursion relations for massless particles of spin 1 and 2 imply that the whole tree-level S-matrix can be determined in terms of three-particle amplitudes (evaluated at complex momenta). However, the known proofs of the validity of the relations rely on the Lagrangian of the theory, either by using Feynman diagrams explicitly or by studying the effective theory at large complex momenta. This means that a purely S-matrix theoretic proof of the relations is still missing. The aim of this paper is to provide such a proof for spin 1 particles by extending the four-particle test introduced by P. Benincasa and F. Cachazo in arXiv:0705.4305[hep-th] to all particles. We show how n-particle tests imply that the rational function built from the BCFW recursion relations possesses all the correct factorization channels including holomorphic and anti-holomorphic collinear limits. This in turn implies that they give the correct S-matrix of the theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3210

zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriesgauge symmetryQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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