Amplitudes, recursion relations and unitarity in the abelian Higgs model

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2017)002MaRDI QIDQ1707679zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ronald Kleiss, Oscar Boher Luna

Publication date 3 April 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04859

zbMATH Keywords

electroweak standard modelHiggs physicsscattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

Abstract: The Abelian Higgs model forms an essential part of the electroweak standard model: it is the sector containing only Z and Higgs bosons. We present a diagram-based proof of the tree-level unitarity of this model inside the unitary gauge, where only physical degrees of freedom occur. We derive combinatorial recursion relations for off-shell amplitudes in the massless approximation, which allows us to prove the cancellation of the first two orders in energy of unitarity-violating high-energy behaviour for any tree-level amplitude in this model. We describe a deformation of the amplitudes by extending the physical phase space to at least 7 spacetime dimensions, which leads to on-shell recursion relations a la BCFW. These lead to a simple proof that all on-shell tree amplitudes obey partial-wave unitarity.

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