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New Soft Theorems for Goldstone Boson Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-25 v1

Abstract

In this letter we discuss new soft theorems for the Goldstone boson amplitudes with non-vanishing soft limits. The standard argument is that the non-linearly realized shift symmetry leads to the vanishing of scattering amplitudes in the soft limit, known as the Alder zero. This statement involves certain assumptions of the absence of cubic vertices and the absence of linear terms in the transformations of fields. For theories which fail to satisfy these conditions, we derive a new soft theorem which involves certain linear combinations of lower point amplitudes, generalizing the Adler zero statement. We provide an explicit example of SU(N)/SU(N1)SU(N)/SU(N-1) sigma model which was also recently studied in the context of U(1)U(1) fibrated models. The soft theorem can be then used as an input into the modified soft recursion relations for the reconstruction of all tree-level amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1910.04766,
  title  = {New Soft Theorems for Goldstone Boson Amplitudes},
  author = {Karol Kampf and Jiri Novotny and Mikhail Shifman and Jaroslav Trnka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04766},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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