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Nonperturbative Anomalous Thresholds
Feynman diagrams (notably the triangle diagram) involving heavy enough particles contain branch cuts on the physical sheet - anomalous thresholds - which, unlike normal thresholds and bound-state poles, do not correspond to any asymptotic $n$-particle state. ``Who ordered that?" We show that an...
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2847436 |
Sumario: | Feynman diagrams (notably the triangle diagram) involving heavy enough particles contain branch cuts on the physical sheet - anomalous thresholds - which, unlike normal thresholds and bound-state poles, do not correspond to any asymptotic $n$-particle state. ``Who ordered that?" We show that anomalous thresholds arise as a consequence of established S-matrix principles and two reasonable assumptions: unitarity below the physical region and analyticity in the mass. We find explicit nonperturbative formulas for the discontinuity across the anomalous threshold in $d=2$, and in $d = 4$, ready to be used in dispersion relations for bootstrap and phenomenological applications. |
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