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Main Authors: Kumar, Aakash, Rudra, Arnab, Shaw, Rahul
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12431
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author Kumar, Aakash
Rudra, Arnab
Shaw, Rahul
author_facet Kumar, Aakash
Rudra, Arnab
Shaw, Rahul
contents In gauge theories, contact terms play an important role in ensuring gauge invariance. In the spinor helicity formalism, the choice of a gauge-fixing condition manifests itself in the form of the choice of reference vector to write the massless polarization vector(s). However, this choice must be irrelevant in any gauge-invariant observable. We use this principle to determine contact term for Electromagnetic Compton amplitude. We considered three-point function between two massive particles \& a photon to be one which is responsible for soft photon theorem/Coulomb and demonstrate that it is possible to use the above-mentioned principle to find the contact term for the tree-level Compton amplitude of two bosonic massive spinning particles and two photons. The final result does not suffer from any spurious poles.
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spellingShingle Compton amplitude and Contact term(s) in the Spinor Helicity formalism
Kumar, Aakash
Rudra, Arnab
Shaw, Rahul
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In gauge theories, contact terms play an important role in ensuring gauge invariance. In the spinor helicity formalism, the choice of a gauge-fixing condition manifests itself in the form of the choice of reference vector to write the massless polarization vector(s). However, this choice must be irrelevant in any gauge-invariant observable. We use this principle to determine contact term for Electromagnetic Compton amplitude. We considered three-point function between two massive particles \& a photon to be one which is responsible for soft photon theorem/Coulomb and demonstrate that it is possible to use the above-mentioned principle to find the contact term for the tree-level Compton amplitude of two bosonic massive spinning particles and two photons. The final result does not suffer from any spurious poles.
title Compton amplitude and Contact term(s) in the Spinor Helicity formalism
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12431