Partial Wave Amplitude Basis and Selection Rules in Effective Field Theories

Abstract

We derive the generalized partial wave expansion for N→M scattering amplitude in terms of spinor helicity variables. The basis amplitudes of the expansion with definite angular momentum j consist of the Poincaré Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Moreover, we obtain a series of selection rules that restrict the anomalous dimension matrix of effective operators and how effective operators contribute to some 2→N amplitudes at the loop level.