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Soft Scalars in Effective Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive a soft theorem for a massless scalar in an effective field theory with generic field content using the geometry of field space. This result extends the geometric soft theorem for scalar effective field theories by allowing the massless scalar to couple to other scalars, fermions, and gauge bosons. The soft theorem keeps its geometric form, but where the field-space geometry now involves the full field content of the theory. As a bonus, we also present novel double soft theorems with fermions, which mimic the geometric structure of the double soft theorem for scalars.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12142,
  title  = {Soft Scalars in Effective Field Theory},
  author = {Maria Derda and Andreas Helset and Julio Parra-Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12142},
  year   = {2024}
}

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28 pages, 1 figure

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