Cohen, T., Craig, N., Lu, X. and Sutherland, D. (2021) Unitarity violation and the geometry of Higgs EFTs. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(12), 3. (doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2021)003)
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Abstract
We derive the scale of unitarity violation from the geometry of Effective Field Theory (EFT) extensions of the Standard Model Higgs sector. The high-energy behavior of amplitudes with more than four scalar legs depends on derivatives of geometric invariants with respect to the physical Higgs field h, such that higher-point amplitudes begin to reconstruct the scalar manifold away from our vacuum. In theories whose low-energy limit can be described by the Higgs EFT (HEFT) but not the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), non-analyticities in the vicinity of our vacuum limit the radius of convergence of geometric invariants, leading to unitarity violation at energies below 4πv. Our results unify approaches to the HEFT/SMEFT dichotomy based on unitarity, analyticity, and geometry, and more broadly illustrate the sense in which observables probe the geometry of an EFT. Along the way, we provide novel basis-independent results for Goldstone/Higgs boson scattering amplitudes expressed in terms of geometric covariant quantities.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Sutherland, Dr David |
Authors: | Cohen, T., Craig, N., Lu, X., and Sutherland, D. |
College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
Journal Name: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 1126-6708 |
ISSN (Online): | 1029-8479 |
Published Online: | 01 December 2021 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2021 The Authors |
First Published: | First published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2021(12): 3 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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