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arxiv:2607.15191

Massive On-shell Splitting Functions in Spinor-Helicity Formalism

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Abstract

An on-shell formalism using light-front spinors derives massive collinear splitting functions for Standard Model particles by matching to massless amplitudes and recursive bootstrap rules.

Collinear splitting functions govern parton evolution, parton showers, and resummation at high-energy colliders. While on-shell spinor-helicity methods have successfully yielded massless QCD splitting functions, a complete on-shell construction for massive particles, systematically incorporating finite-mass effects, is less developed. We present an on-shell constructive formalism for massive collinear splitting functions based on Soper-Weinberg collinear spinors, whose transformation properties follow from a light-front Galilean subgroup of the Poincaré group. Decomposing massive momenta and spinors with respect to fixed lightlike vectors n and bar n makes the expansion in the alignment regime m<p_Tll p_+ manifest. The leading-order structures are matched to massless three-point amplitudes, while an additional Higgs momentum along bar n probes the subleading spinor components and relates them to massless four-point amplitudes. We derive the complete set of leading and subleading massive splitting functions for all Standard Model particles and establish a systematic matching dictionary between massless and massive coupling coefficients at both the three- and four-point levels. Higher-point splitting functions are obtained through the recursive bootstrap relation with a universal substitution rule as a consequence of the Galilean symmetry. This constructive framework extends naturally to effective field theory operators and higher perturbative orders, providing a flexible computational tool for precision collider physics and parton shower development.

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