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Higher-order tree-level amplitudes in the nonlinear sigma model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

We present a generalisation of the flavour-ordering method applied to the chiral nonlinear sigma model with any number of flavours. We use an extended Lagrangian with terms containing any number of derivatives, organised in a power-counting hierarchy. The method allows diagrammatic computations at tree-level with any number of legs at any order in the power-counting. Using an automated implementation of the method, we calculate amplitudes ranging from 12 legs at leading order, O(p2)\mathcal{O}(p^2), to 6 legs at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order, O(p8)\mathcal{O}(p^8). In addition to this, we generalise several properties of amplitudes in the nonlinear sigma model to higher orders. These include the double soft limit and the uniqueness of stripped amplitudes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1909.13684,
  title  = {Higher-order tree-level amplitudes in the nonlinear sigma model},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Karol Kampf and Mattias Sjö},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13684},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

47 pages, the file flavour-order.pdf contains the expressions for two more amplitudes and the diagrams for all calculated ones

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