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It is often necessary to put a particle “on the mass shell” in a calculation. This can, of
course, be accomplished with a let
command such as
let p.p= m^2;
but an alternative method is provided by two commands mass
and mshell
. mass
takes a list of equations of the form:
=
〈scalar variable⟩for example,
mass p1=m, q1=mu;
The only effect of this command is to associate the relevant scalar variable as a mass with the corresponding vector. If we now say
mshell
〈vector variable⟩,
…,
〈vector variable⟩〈terminator⟩and a mass has been associated with these arguments, a substitution of the form
.
〈vector variable⟩ =
〈mass⟩^
2is set up. An error results if the variable has no preassigned mass.
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