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We consider, in more details than it was done previously, the effective low-energy behavior in the quantum theory of a light scalar field coupled to another scalar with much larger mass. The main target of our work is an IR decoupling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-29 Tiago G. Ribeiro , Ilya L. Shapiro

In this paper, we study loop corrections to the recently proposed new soft theorem of Cachazo-Strominger, for both gravity and gauge theory amplitudes. We first review the proof of its tree-level validity based on BCFW recursion relations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

Cosmological soft theorems (or consistency relations) provide a powerful probe for the physics of inflation. These relations rely on minimal assumptions and hold very generally. Consequently, any violation of these relations would rule out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Farman Ullah

We investigate the tree-level S-matrix in gauge theories and open superstring theory with several soft particles. We show that scattering amplitudes with two or three soft gluons of non-identical helicities behave universally in the limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-31 Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen , Michael Zlotnikov

We discuss constraints imposed by soft limits for effective field theories arising from symmetry breaking. In particular, we consider those associated with anomalous conformal symmetry as well as duality symmetries in supergravity. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

We derive the subleading soft graviton theorem in a generic quantum theory of gravity for arbitrary number of soft external gravitons and arbitrary number of finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin. Our results are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen , Mritunjay Verma

We study soft theorems at one loop in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory through finite order in the infrared regulator and to subleading order in the soft parameter {\delta}. In particular, we derive a universal constraint from dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Edward Hughes , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In this letter, we discuss a generalization of the Adler zero to loop integrands in the planar limit of the $SU(N)$ non-linear sigma model (NLSM). While possible to maintain at one-loop, the Adler zero for integrands is violated starting at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Christoph Bartsch , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka

We prove the absence of scale-invariant one-loop corrections to the superhorizon curvature perturbations from small-scale (potentially enhanced) scalar perturbations in a general inflationary setup, including the transient ultra-slow-roll…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yohei Ema , Muzi Hong , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida

We use the amplitude soft bootstrap method to explore the space of effective field theories (EFT) of massless vectors and scalars. It is known that demanding vanishing soft limits fixes uniquely a special class of EFTs: non-linear sigma…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Filip Preucil , Jaroslav Trnka

We systematically explore the landscape of nonrelativistic effective field theories with a local $S$-matrix and enhanced symmetries and soft behavior. The exploration is carried out using both conventional quantum field theory methods based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-18 Martin A. Mojahed , Tomáš Brauner

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

We consider various symmetries present in the collinear effective theory and their implications. There are collinear, soft and ultrasoft gauge symmetries and we discuss transformation properties of a collinear quark and gauge fields under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Junegone Chay , Chul Kim

The dynamics of soft ($|\vec{p}|\sim g^2 T$) non-Abelian gauge fields at finite temperature is non-perturbative. The effective theory for the soft scale is determined by diagrams with external momenta $p_0\lsim g^2 T$, $|\vec{p}|\sim g^2 T$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Dietrich Bodeker

Soft-collinear effective theory is generalized to include soft massless quarks in addition to collinear fields. This extension is necessary for the treatment of interactions with the soft spectator quark in a heavy meson. The power counting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Richard J. Hill , Matthias Neubert

We study double soft theorem for the generalised biadjoint scalar field theory whose amplitudes are computed in terms of punctures on $\mathbb{CP}^{k-1}$. We find that whenever the double soft limit does not decouple into a product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 Md. Abhishek , Subramanya Hegde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Priya Saha

Superstring field theory gives expressions for heterotic and type II string loop amplitudes that are free from ultraviolet and infrared divergences when the number of non-compact space-time dimensions is five or more. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ashoke Sen

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu

In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhi-Zhong Li , Hung-Hwa Lin , Shun-Qing Zhang

We evaluated the scattering amplitude of neutral scalar particles at one-loop order in the context of effective field theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. Our study suggests that quantum gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-02 A. C. Lehum