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In this article, we study the triple-collinear limit of scattering amplitudes, focusing the discussion in processes which include at least one photon. To deal with infrared divergences we applied dimensional regularization (DREG) and we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-08 German F. R. Sborlini

Lorentz invariance, unitarity, and causality enforce powerful constraints on the theory space of physical scattering amplitudes. However, virtually all efforts in this direction have centered on the very simplest case of four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

We prove a lower bound for the modulus of the amplitude for a two-body process at large scattering angle. This is based on the interplay of the analyticity of the amplitude and the positivity properties of its absorptive part. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Henri Epstein , André Martin

We use partial wave unitarity to constrain various bespoke four-point amplitudes. We start by constructing bespoke generalizations of the type I superstring amplitude, which we show satisfy dual resonance and have suitable high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

We study the emergence of two types of two-photon bounds states in waveguides of any chirality. Specifically, we present a systematic way of analytically determining the eigenstates of a system consisting of a waveguide coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Bastian Bakkensen , Yu-Xiang Zhang , Johannes Bjerlin , Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Positivity bounds are powerful tools to constrain effective field theories. Utilizing the partial wave expansion in the dispersion relation and the full crossing symmetry of the scattering amplitude, we derive several sets of generically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Andrew J. Tolley , Zi-Yue Wang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

The EFT coefficients in any gapped, scalar, Lorentz invariant field theory must satisfy positivity requirements if there is to exist a local, analytic Wilsonian UV completion. We apply these bounds to the tree level scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Claudia de Rham , Scott Melville , Andrew J. Tolley , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We establish that unitarity of scattering amplitudes imposes universal entropy bounds. The maximal entropy of a self-sustained quantum field object of radius R is equal to its surface area and at the same time to the inverse running…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Gia Dvali

We extend the recent formalism developed for computing rapidity anomalous dimension of form factors using unitarity to the problem of high-energy near forward scattering. By combining the factorization of $2\rightarrow 2$ scattering in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Ira Z. Rothstein , Michael Saavedra

We consider the scattering of two-bosons with negative parity and spin 0 or 1. Starting from helicity partial-wave scattering amplitudes we derive transformations that eliminate all kinematical constraints. Such amplitudes are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 M. F. M. Lutz , I. Vidana

We calculate all the four-photon helicity amplitudes at the one-loop level in a massive theory using multiple-cut methods. The amplitudes are derived in scalar QED, QED and $\textrm{QED}^{\caln =1}$ theories. We will see the origin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Christophe Bernicot

Over the past couple of years we have had significant progress in determining long-distance singularities in gauge-theory scattering amplitudes of massless particles beyond the planar limit. Upon considering all kinematic invariants much…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Einan Gardi

A major task in phenomenology today is constraining the parameter space of SMEFT and constructing models of fundamental physics that the SM derives from. To this effect, we report an exhaustive list of sum rules for 4-fermion operators of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Aleksandr Azatov , Diptimoy Ghosh , Amartya Harsh Singh

The amplitude of zero angle scattering of electron on photon in the 3-rd QED order of fine structure constant with $\gamma^*\gamma$ intermediate state converting into quark--antiquark is considered. Utilizing analytic properties of elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Bartos , S. Dubnicka , A. Z. Dubnickova , E. A. Kuraev

We study bounds arising from the analyticity and unitarity of scattering amplitudes in the context of effective field theories with massless particles. We provide an approach that only uses dispersion relations away from the forward limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Carl Beadle , Giulia Isabella , Davide Perrone , Sara Ricossa , Francesco Riva , Francesco Serra

Using an effective field theory (EFT) formalism for forward scattering, we reconsider the factorization of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit. Expanding the amplitude in gauge invariant operators labelled by the number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Ian Moult , Sanjay Raman , Gregory Ridgway , Iain W. Stewart

The main objective of this work is to isolate Effective Field Theory scattering amplitudes in the space of non-perturbative two-to-two amplitudes, using the S-matrix Bootstrap. We do so by introducing the notion of Effective Field Theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Joan Elias Miro , Andrea Guerrieri , Mehmet Asim Gumus

The leading contribution of the light-by-light scattering effects to g-factor of a bound electron is derived. The corresponding amplitude is expressed in terms of low-energy Delbruck scattering of a virtual photon. The result reads Delta g…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Savely G. Karshenboim , Alexander I. Milstein

We derive bounds on couplings in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) as a consequence of causality and the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes. In the SMEFT, there are 64 independent operators at mass dimension eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Grant N. Remmen , Nicholas L. Rodd

We investigate the space of massive two-dimensional theories with a global U(N) symmetry and no bound states. Following S-matrix bootstrap principles, we establish rigorous bounds on the space of consistent $2 \rightarrow 2$ scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Lucía Cordova , Ricardo Rodrigues