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Physical projectors for multi-leg helicity amplitudes

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arxiv 1906.03298 v1 pith:NCAIQE3B submitted 2019-06-07 hep-ph hep-th

Physical projectors for multi-leg helicity amplitudes

classification hep-ph hep-th
keywords helicityphysicalamplitudesprojectorprojectorsexternalfive-gluonmulti-leg
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We present a method for building physical projector operators for multi-leg helicity amplitudes. For any helicity configuration of the external particles, we define a physical projector which singles out the corresponding helicity amplitude. For processes with more than four external legs, these physical projectors depend on significantly fewer tensor structures and exhibit a remarkable simplicity compared with projector operators defined with traditional approaches. As an example, we present analytic formulas for a complete set of projectors for five-gluon scattering. These have been validated by reproducing known results for five-gluon amplitudes up to one-loop.

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