All-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes in Born-Infeld electrodynamics from generalized unitarity

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2020)009MaRDI QIDQ2191644zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Henriette Elvang, Marios Hadjiantonis, Callum R. T. Jones, Shruti Paranjape

Publication date 25 June 2020

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05321

zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriesglobal symmetriesscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Model quantum field theories (81T10) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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 ($++ldots+$) and next-to-self-dual ($-+ldots+$) 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 $d=4-2epsilon$ dimensions at order $mathcalO(epsilo{n}^0)$ using the dimension-shifting formalism. We comment on the implications for electromagnetic duality in quantum Born-Infeld theory.

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