Generalized Fierz identities

DOI10.1119/1.1757445zbMATH Open1219.81155arXivhep-ph/0306087OpenAlexW3106031985MaRDI QIDQ3088643FDOQ3088643

Authors: José F. Nieves, Palash Baran Pal 

Publication date: 19 August 2011

Published in: American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Low energy weak interactions calculations with fermions frequently involve a superposition of quartic products of Dirac spinors, in which the order of the spinors is not the same in all the contributing terms. A common trick that is used to bring them to a uniform ordering is the Fierz transformation. We show that the standard Fierz rearrangement formula quoted in textbooks is one element of a class of transformations of a quartic product amplitude, under which the spinors are rearranged with different orderings and, in the general case, some or all of the spinors are transformed to their Lorentz-invariant complex conjugate form. We give a pedagogical derivation of the explicit forms of all such transformation matrices. In addition to the usual Lorentz scalar quartic products, we consider pseudoscalar ones as well. Such manipulations and formulas are useful, in particular, when some of the fermions involved are Majorana particles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306087

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25)

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