On the calculation of covariant expressions for Dirac bilinears

In this article, various approaches to calculate covariant expressions for the bilinears of Dirac spinors are presented. For this purpose, algebraic equations defining Dirac spinors are discussed. Following that, a covariant approach for spacetime parameterization is presented and the equations defining Dirac spinors are written fully in terms of Lorentz scalars. After presenting how the tensorial bilinears can be reduced to combinations of scalar bilinears with appropriate Lorentz structures, a covariant recipe for the calculation of scalar bilinears is provided.

First-order Theory of Fields with Arbitrary Spin

By exploiting the previously exposed results in 2-spinor geometry, a general description of fields of arbitrary spin is exposed and shown to admit a first-order Lagrangian which extends the theory of Dirac spinors. The needed bundle is the fibered direct product of a symmetric ‘main sector’—carrying an irreducible representation of the angular-momentum algebra—and an induced sequence of ‘ghost sectors’. Several special cases are considered; in particular, one recovers the Bargmann-Wigner and Joos-Weinberg equations.

Chirality of Dirac Spinors Revisited

We emphasize the differences between the chirality concept applied to relativistic fermions and the ususal chirality concept in Euclidean spaces. We introduce the gamma groups and we use them to classify as direct or indirect the symmetry operators encountered in the context of Dirac algebra. Then we show how a recent general mathematical definition of chirality unifies the chirality concepts and resolve conflicting conclusions about symmetry operators, and particularly about the so-called chirality operator. The proofs are based on group theory rather than on Clifford algebras. The results are independent on the representations of Dirac gamma matrices, and stand for higher dimensional ones.

Projective method for spinorial techniques: Unifying calculational schemes of Dirac amplitudes

There have been numerous approaches to the calculation of spin dependent amplitudes for Dirac particles. All of them have their own advantages, particularly, the standard method of calculation, based on the multiplication by the unit, has a few shortcomings. In this work we use the closure property of the Dirac spinors to present a general method for the amplitude computation. It is shown that the massless spinor method and the helicity spinor method can be formulated through this method. Finally, we get an example of this calculation procedure computing the spin dependentamplitude for the Compton process.