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+ | “A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.” | ||
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+ | <cite>Lev Landau</cite> | ||
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- | <note tip> | + | For a nice introduction to the spinor helicity formalism, see section 3.1 in [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.05067.pdf|Amplitudes for Astrophysicists I: Known Knowns]] |
- | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | + | by Daniel J. Burger et. al. |
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+ | Other nice "low-level" discussion can be found [[http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/03/guest-post-lance-dixon-on-calculating-amplitudes/|here]] and [[http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/31/guest-post-jaroslav-trnka-on-the-amplituhedron/|here]]. | ||
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+ | See also [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5353|A brief introduction to modern amplitude methods]] by Lance J. Dixon | ||
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+ | and [[http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~haber/ph218/ExperimentersGuideToTheHelicityFormalism.pdf|An Experimenter’s Guide to the Helicity Formalism by Jeffrey D. Richman]] | ||
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The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | ||
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