A NEW METHOD FOR HELICITY CALCULATIONS

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作者
BALLESTRERO, A [1 ]
MAINA, E [1 ]
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[1] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,SEZ TORINO,I-10125 TURIN,ITALY
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10.1016/0370-2693(95)00351-K
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We propose a new helicity formalism based on the insertion in spinor lines of a complete set of states built up with appropriate unphysical spinors, which are eigenstates of ($) over bar p, where p is the momentum flowing in a fermion propagator. The corresponding eigenvalues can be real (p(2) > 0) or imaginary (p(2) < 0). The method is developed both for massless and massive fermions for which it turns out to be particularly fast. All relevant formulae are given.
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