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We study perturbative unitarity constraints on generic interactions between fermion and vector fields, which are allowed to have generic quantum numbers under a ΠiSU(Ni) ⨂ U(1) group. We derive compact expressions for the bounds on the couplings for the cases where the fields transform under the trivial, fundamental or adjoint representation of the various, considering both the case of a complex vector arbitrary interactions with fermionic current and also the case of vectors arising as gauge fields. We apply our results to some specific NP models showing the constraints that can be derived using the tool of perturbative unitarity.
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Barducci, D., Nardecchia, M. & Toni, C. Perturbative unitarity constraints on generic vector interactions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 134 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)134
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