Systematizing and addressing theory uncertainties of unitarization with the Inverse Amplitude Method
Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Juan Escudero-Pedrosa, Jose Antonio Oller
SciPost Phys. 11, 020 (2021) · published 3 August 2021
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.2.020
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Abstract
Effective Field Theories (EFTs) constructed as derivative expansions in powers of momentum, in the spirit of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT), are a controllable approximation to strong dynamics as long as the energy of the interacting particles remains small, as they do not respect exact elastic unitarity. This limits their predictive power towards new physics at a higher scale if small separations from the Standard Model are found at the LHC or elsewhere. Unitarized chiral perturbation theory techniques have been devised to extend the reach of the EFT to regimes where partial waves are saturating unitarity, but their uncertainties have hitherto not been addressed thoroughly. Here we take one of the best known of them, the Inverse Amplitude Method (IAM), and carefully following its derivation, we quantify the uncertainty introduced at each step. We compare its hadron ChPT and its electroweak sector Higgs EFT applications. We find that the relative theoretical uncertainty of the IAM at the mass of the first resonance encountered in a partial-wave is of the same order in the counting as the starting uncertainty of the EFT at near-threshold energies, so that its unitarized extension should \textit{a priori} be expected to be reasonably successful. This is so provided a check for zeroes of the partial wave amplitude is carried out and, if they appear near the resonance region, we show how to modify adequately the IAM to take them into account.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez,
- 1 Felipe Llanes-Estrada,
- 2 Juan Escudero-Pedrosa,
- 1 José Antonio Oller
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Complutense University of Madrid
- 2 Universidad de Murcia / University of Murcia
- Horizon 2020 (through Organization: European Commission [EC])
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (through Organization: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades / Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) (through Organization: Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad / Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness [MINECO])