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Probing multi-particle unitarity with the Landau equations
by Miguel Correia, Amit Sever, Alexander Zhiboedov
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Miguel Correia |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202207_00004v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | July 29, 2022 |
| Date submitted: | July 4, 2022, 9:40 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Miguel Correia |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We consider the $2\to 2$ scattering amplitude of identical massive particles. We identify the Landau curves in the multi-particle region $16m^2 \leq s, t < 36m^2$. We systematically generate and select the relevant graphs and numerically solve the associated Landau equations for the leading singularity. We find an infinite sequence of Landau curves that accumulates at finite $s$ and $t$ on the physical sheet. We expect that such accumulations are generic for $s,t > 16m^2$. Our analysis sheds new light on the complicated analytic structure of nonperturbative relativistic scattering amplitudes.
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