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Title: 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.

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  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
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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

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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 = {Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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