Published April 8, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Helicity conservation in gauge boson scattering at high energy

  • 1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Gr-54124, Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Astroparticules, UMR 5207, Universite Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5 (France)

Description

We remark that the high energy gauge boson scattering processes involving two-body initial and final states satisfy certain selection rules described as helicity conservation of the gauge boson amplitudes (GBHC). These rules are valid at the Born level, as well as at the level of the leading and subleading 1-loop logarithmic corrections, in both the standard model and the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). A 'fermionic equivalence' theorem is also proved, which suggests that GBHC is valid at all orders in the MSSM at sufficiently high energies, where the mass suppressed contributions are neglected

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
94
Journal Issue
13
Journal Page Range
p. 131601-131601.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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