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Probing multi-particle unitarity with the Landau equations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the 222\to 2 scattering amplitude of identical massive particles. We identify the Landau curves in the multi-particle region 16m2s,t<36m216m^2 \leq s, t < 36m^2. We systematically generate and select the relevant graphs and numerically solve the associated Landau equations for the leading singularity. We find an infinite sequence of Landau curves that accumulates at finite ss and tt on the physical sheet. We expect that such accumulations are generic for s,t>16m2s,t > 16m^2. Our analysis sheds new light on the complicated analytic structure of nonperturbative relativistic scattering amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2111.12100,
  title  = {Probing multi-particle unitarity with the Landau equations},
  author = {Miguel Correia and Amit Sever and Alexander Zhiboedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12100},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages + appendices, 28 figures

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