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Some Properties of Amplitudes at Multi Boson Thresholds in Spontaneously Broken Scalar Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

It is shown that in a λϕ4\lambda \phi^4 theory of one real scalar field with spontaneous breaking of symmetry a calculation of the amplitudes of production by a virtual field ϕ\phi of nn on-mass-shell bosons all being exactly at rest is equivalent in any order of the loop expansion to a Euclidean space calculation of the mean field of a kink-type configuration. Using this equivalence it is found that all the 1n1 \to n amplitudes have no absorptive part at the thresholds to any order of perturbation theory. This implies non-trivial relations between multi-boson threshold production amplitudes. In particular the on-mass-shell amplitude of the process 232 \to 3 should vanish at the threshold in all loops. It is also shown that the factor n!n! in the 1n1 \to n amplitudes at the threshold is not eliminated by loop effects.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9211242,
  title  = {Some Properties of Amplitudes at Multi Boson Thresholds in Spontaneously Broken Scalar Theory},
  author = {M. B. Voloshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9211242},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages including 3 figures, LaTeX, TPI-MINN-92/61-T