All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity
Abstract
We initiate a study of non-supersymmetric Born-Infeld electrodynamics in 4d at the quantum level. Explicit all-multiplicity expressions are calculated for the purely rational one-loop amplitudes in the self-dual (+ + … +) and next-to-self-dual (- + … +) helicity sectors. Using a supersymmetric decomposition, d-dimensional unitarity cuts of the integrand factorize into tree-amplitudes in a 4d model of Born-Infeld photons coupled to a massive complex scalar. The two-scalar tree-amplitudes needed to construct the Born-Infeld integrand are computed using two complimentary approaches: (1) as a double-copy of Yang-Mills coupled to a massive adjoint scalar with a dimensionally reduced form of Chiral Perturbation Theory, and (2) by imposing consistency with low-energy theorems under a reduction from 4d to 3d and T-duality. The Born-Infeld integrand is integrated in d = 4 - 2ϵ dimensions at order Ο(ϵ0) using the dimension-shifting formalism. We comment on the implications for electromagnetic duality in quantum Born-Infeld theory.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1643785
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0007859
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Effective Field Theories; Global Symmetries; Scattering Amplitudes
Citation Formats
Elvang, Henriette, Hadjiantonis, Marios, Jones, Callum R. T., and Paranjape, Shruti. All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2020)009.
Elvang, Henriette, Hadjiantonis, Marios, Jones, Callum R. T., & Paranjape, Shruti. All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2020)009
Elvang, Henriette, Hadjiantonis, Marios, Jones, Callum R. T., and Paranjape, Shruti. Mon .
"All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2020)009. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1643785.
@article{osti_1643785,
title = {All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity},
author = {Elvang, Henriette and Hadjiantonis, Marios and Jones, Callum R. T. and Paranjape, Shruti},
abstractNote = {We initiate a study of non-supersymmetric Born-Infeld electrodynamics in 4d at the quantum level. Explicit all-multiplicity expressions are calculated for the purely rational one-loop amplitudes in the self-dual (+ + … +) and next-to-self-dual (- + … +) helicity sectors. Using a supersymmetric decomposition, d-dimensional unitarity cuts of the integrand factorize into tree-amplitudes in a 4d model of Born-Infeld photons coupled to a massive complex scalar. The two-scalar tree-amplitudes needed to construct the Born-Infeld integrand are computed using two complimentary approaches: (1) as a double-copy of Yang-Mills coupled to a massive adjoint scalar with a dimensionally reduced form of Chiral Perturbation Theory, and (2) by imposing consistency with low-energy theorems under a reduction from 4d to 3d and T-duality. The Born-Infeld integrand is integrated in d = 4 - 2ϵ dimensions at order Ο(ϵ0) using the dimension-shifting formalism. We comment on the implications for electromagnetic duality in quantum Born-Infeld theory.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep03(2020)009},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 3,
volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
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