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The traditional $S$-matrix does not exist for theories with massless particles, such as quantum electrodynamics. The difficulty in isolating asymptotic states manifests itself as infrared divergences at each order in perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-25 Holmfridur Hannesdottir , Matthew D. Schwartz

In this article we review the world-sheet scattering theory of strings on AdS 5 x S5. The asymptotic spectrum of this world-sheet theory contains both fundamental particles and bound states of the latter. We explicitly derive the S-matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-29 Marius de Leeuw

When massless particles are involved, the traditional scattering matrix ($S$-matrix) does not exist: it has no rigorous non-perturbative definition and has infrared divergences in its perturbative expansion. The problem can be traced to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Holmfridur Hannesdottir , Matthew D. Schwartz

Computing a perturbative S-matrix through Feynman series in quantum field theory, the regularization used does not affect the final result. We propose a new approach to construction of the perturbative S-matrices, so that they will depend…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic

We derive the exact, factorized, purely elastic scattering matrices for the $a_{2n-1}^{(2)}$ family of nonsimply-laced affine Toda theories. The derivation takes into account the distortion of the classical mass spectrum by radiative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 G. W. Delius , M. T. Grisaru , D. Zanon

We derive the nonperturbative effect in type 0B string theory, which is defined by taking the double scaling limit of a one-matrix model with a two-cut eigenvalue distribution. However, the string equation thus derived cannot determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Hikaru Kawai , Tsunehide Kuroki , Yoshinori Matsuo

The complete spectrum of states in the supersymmetric principal chiral model based on SU(n) is conjectured, and an exact factorizable S-matrix is proposed to describe scattering amongst these states. The SU(n)_L*SU(n)_R symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Jonathan M. Evans , Timothy J. Hollowood

Using duality in optimization theory we formulate a dual approach to the S-matrix bootstrap that provides rigorous bounds to 2D QFT observables as a consequence of unitarity, crossing symmetry and analyticity of the scattering matrix. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Andrea L Guerrieri , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

We introduce a perturbative formulation for a nonlinear extension of the J-matrix method of scattering in two dimensions. That is, we obtain the scattering matrix for the time-independent nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in two dimensions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 T. J. Taiwo , A. D. Alhaidari , U. Al Khawaja

We study the spectrum, the massless S-matrices and the ground-state energy of the flows between successive minimal models of conformal field theory, and within the sine-Gordon model with imaginary coefficient of the cosine term (related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 P. Fendley , H. Saleur , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

We study the perturbative unitarity of noncommutative scalar field theories. Field theories with space-time noncommutativity do not have a unitary S-matrix. Field theories with only space noncommutativity are perturbatively unitary. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jaume Gomis , Thomas Mehen

We construct a perturbative S-matrix for interacting massive scalar fields in global de Sitter space. Our S-matrix is formulated in terms of asymptotic particle states in the far past and future, taking appropriate care for light fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-11 Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison , Mark Srednicki

In non-commutative field theories conventional wisdom is that the unitarity is non-compatible with the perturbation analysis when time is involved in the non-commutative coordinates. However, as suggested by Bahns et.al. recently, the root…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Chaiho Rim , Jae Hyung Yee

We review the derivation of the S-matrix for planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and type IIB superstring theory on an AdS5xS5 background. After deriving the S-matrix for the su(2) and su(3) sectors at the one-loop level based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Changrim Ahn , Rafael I. Nepomechie

This work explores the (non)-integrability and chaotic dynamics of classical strings in the background of a D3-brane with a non-commutative parameter, within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Using the Polyakov action, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 Rashmi R. Nayak , Kamal L. Panigrahi , Manoranjan Samal , Balbeer Singh

These lectures treat scattering theory from a non-perturbative point of view. The course begins with a review of formal aspects in scattering theory, discussing the in/out states and the $S$ matrix that connects them. Unitarity relations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-26 J. A. Oller

String theory is the most promising candidate for the theory unifying all interactions including gravity. It has an extremely difficult dynamics. Therefore, it is useful to study some its simplifications. One of them is non-critical string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Alexandrov

We show that for a generic quantum mechanical system with more than one open scattering channel, it is not possible to fully reconstruct the theory's S-matrix from spectral information obtained in large finite volumes with periodic boundary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-03-07 Evan Berkowitz , Thomas D. Cohen , Patrick Jefferson

For an exponentially decaying potential, analytic structure of the $s$-wave S-matrix can be determined up to the slightest detail, including position of all its poles and their residues. Beautiful hidden structures can be revealed by its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Alexander Moroz , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

We obtain general bounds on scattering processes involving charged particles in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. After a general analysis we derive mostly numerical bounds on couplings in theories with $O(N)$ and $U(N)$ global symmetries. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Miguel F. Paulos , Zechuan Zheng