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On amplitude zeros at threshold

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The occurrence of zeros of 2 to n amplitudes at threshold in scalar theories is studied. We find a differential equation for the scalar potential, which incorporates all known cases where the 2 to n amplitudes at threshold vanish for all sufficiently large nn, in all space-time dimensions, d1d\ge 1. This equation is related to the reflectionless potentials of Quantum Mechanics and to integrable theories in 1+1 dimensions. As an application, we find that the sine-Gordon potential and its hyperbolic version, the sinh-Gordon potential, also have amplitude zeros at threshold, A(2n)=0{\cal A}(2\to n)=0, for n4n\ge 4 and d2d\ge 2, independently of the mass and the coupling constant.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9212280,
  title  = {On amplitude zeros at threshold},
  author = {E. N. Argyres and C. G. Papadopoulos and R. Kleiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9212280},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, Latex, CERN-TH.6762/92