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We develop crossing symmetric dispersion relations for describing 2-2 scattering of identical external particles carrying spin. This enables us to import techniques from Geometric Function Theory and study two sided bounds on low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Subham Dutta Chowdhury , Kausik Ghosh , Parthiv Haldar , Prashanth Raman , Aninda Sinha

We continue the program [1] of carving out the space of large $N$ confining gauge theories by modern S-matrix bootstrap methods, with the ultimate goal of cornering large $N$ QCD. In this paper, we focus on the effective field theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Jan Albert , Leonardo Rastelli

Parameters in an effective field theory can be subject to certain positivity bounds if one requires a UV completion that obeys the fundamental principles of quantum field theory. These bounds are relatively straightforward at the tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yunxiao Ye , Bin He , Jiayin Gu

We derive new effective field theory (EFT) positivity bounds on the elastic $2\to2$ scattering amplitudes of massive spinning particles from the standard UV properties of unitarity, causality, locality and Lorentz invariance. By bounding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Joe Davighi , Scott Melville , Tevong You

We study constraints from higher-point amplitudes on $2 \to 2$ scattering in the context of effective field theory (EFT) using the perturbative numerical S-matrix bootstrap. Specifically, we investigate the class of weakly coupled EFTs with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Justin Berman , Henriette Elvang , Carolina Figueiredo

We propose a new method for constructing the consistent space of scattering amplitudes by parameterizing the imaginary parts of partial waves and utilizing dispersion relations, crossing symmetry, and full unitarity. Using this framework,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Claudia de Rham , Andrew J. Tolley , Zhuo-Hui Wang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We propose a novel strategy to fit experimental data using a UV complete amplitude ansatz satisfying the constraints of Analyticity, Crossing, and Unitarity. We focus on $\pi\pi$ scattering combining both experimental and lattice data. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Andrea Guerrieri , Kelian Häring , Ning Su

We use the S-matrix bootstrap to carve out the space of unitary, analytic, crossing symmetric and supersymmetric graviton scattering amplitudes in nine, ten and eleven dimensions. We extend and improve the numerical methods of our previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Andrea Guerrieri , Harish Murali , Joao Penedones , Pedro Vieira

S-matrix bootstrap and positivity bounds are usually viewed as constraints on low-energy theories imposed by the requirement of a standard UV completion. By considering graviton--photon scattering in the Standard Model, we argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Lasma Alberte , Claudia de Rham , Sumer Jaitly , Andrew J. Tolley

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

We apply the method of unitary transformations to a model two-nucleon potential and construct from it an effective potential in a subspace of momenta below a given cut-off $\Lambda$. The S-matrices in the full space and in the subspace are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Epelbaoum , W. Glöckle , A. Krüger , Ulf-G. Meißner

S-matrix is one of the fundamental observables of the quantum theory of relativistic particles. There have been attempts to understand the quantum dynamics of relativistic particles abstractly in terms of S-matrix bypassing a Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Parthiv Haldar

We explore the space of consistent three-particle couplings in $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric two-dimensional QFTs using two first-principles approaches. Our first approach relies solely on unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexandre Homrich , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

We discuss conceptual aspects of renormalization in the context of effective field theories for the two-nucleon system. It is shown that, contrary to widespread belief, renormalization scheme dependence of the scattering amplitude can only…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Epelbaum , J. Gegelia

We use generalized elastic positivity bounds to constrain the parameter space of multi-field spin-2 effective field theories. These generalized bounds involve inelastic scattering amplitudes between particles with different masses, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Zi-Yue Wang , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We construct the effective field theory for a single massive higher-spin particle in flat spacetime. Positivity bounds of the S-matrix force the cutoff of the theory to be well below the naive strong-coupling scale, forbid any potential and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Brando Bellazzini , Francesco Riva , Javi Serra , Francesco Sgarlata

We examine universal positivity constraints on $2 \to 2$ scattering in 4d planar $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with higher-derivative corrections. We present numerical evidence that the convex region of allowed Wilson coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Justin Berman , Henriette Elvang , Aidan Herderschee

We initiate the S-matrix bootstrap analysis of theories with non-invertible symmetries in (1+1) dimensions. Our previous work showed that crossing symmetry of S-matrices in such theories is modified, with modification characterized by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Christian Copetti , Lucia Cordova , Shota Komatsu

We present a systematic method for deriving partial-wave unitarity bounds on Wilson coefficients of higher-dimensional operators in effective field theories involving more than four fields, which naturally appear in tree-level 2-to-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Céline Degrande , Hao-Lin Li , Ling-Xiao Xu

We derive a universal bound on the integrated total scattering cross-section at \emph{finite} energies, expressed in terms of a single low-energy coefficient constrained by the non-perturbative S-matrix Bootstrap. At high energies, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Miguel Correia , Alessandro Georgoudis , Andrea L. Guerrieri