Massless-Massive Amplitude Correspondence II: Constructive Massive Amplitudes in Standard Model

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Authors: Yu-Han Ni, Chao Wu, Jiang-Hao Yu
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Abstract

In the minimal helicity-chirality formalism, we systematically construct higher-point massive amplitudes from the fundamental building blocks: the contact three-point and four-point massive amplitudes. The inclusion of four-point contact amplitudes is essential to maintain gauge invariance in the spontaneously broken Standard Model. We construct all the standard model massive contact amplitudes and identify the physical light-cone gauge nature of massive amplitudes. Then only using the contact minimal helicity-chirality amplitudes at the leading order, we show both bootstrap techniques and on-shell recursion relations can be utilized to compute higher-point massive amplitudes. This provides a systematic framework for constructing various higher-point electroweak amplitudes, analogous to established on-shell methods for massless theories. Finally by deforming the gauge-invariant $n$-point amplitudes, we extend the massless-massive correspondence from three-and-four point contact amplitudes to general $n$-point factorized amplitudes.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
15 January 2026
Document type
Preprint