Tree amplitudes and color decomposition in broken SU(2)

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2012)095zbMATH Open1348.81314arXiv1201.1523MaRDI QIDQ339036FDOQ339036

Authors: Liang Dai, Kirill Melnikov, Fabrizio Caola 

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: We propose a color decomposition for general tree amplitudes in a SU(2) gauge theory which is spontaneously broken via the Higgs mechanism. Working in the unitary gauge, we construct color-ordered amplitudes by explicitly presenting a set of color-ordered Feynman rules. Those primitive amplitudes are gauge-invariant, and they preserve perturbative unitarity in the high-energy limit. Serving as building blocks of color-dressed tree amplitudes, they allow for efficient evaluation of tree-level scattering amplitudes involving gauge bosons and the Higgs boson via the Berends-Giele recursion relations for color-ordered currents. We demonstrate the efficiency of this computational scheme by calculating on-shell amplitudes for scattering of five, six and nine W-bosons in the limit of vanishing Weinberg angle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1523

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudesspontaneous symmetry breakingstandard model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Cites Work

• On tree amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
• MadGraph 5: going beyond
• Automatic Feynman graph generation
• The MHV Lagrangian for a spontaneously broken gauge theory
• Efficient color-dressed calculation of virtual corrections

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• Forests, groves and Higgs bosons

Uses Software

• MadGraph
• Comix

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