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On-Shell Recursion Relations for Effective Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive the first ever on-shell recursion relations for amplitudes in effective field theories. Based solely on factorization and the soft behavior of amplitudes, these recursion relations employ a new rescaling momentum shift to construct all tree-level scattering amplitudes in theories like the non- linear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld theory, and the Galileon. Our results prove that all theories with enhanced soft behavior are on-shell constructible.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03309,
  title  = {On-Shell Recursion Relations for Effective Field Theories},
  author = {Clifford Cheung and Karol Kampf and Jiri Novotny and Chia-Hsien Shen and Jaroslav Trnka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03309},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages

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