RT Journal Article
T1 Unitarity, analyticity, dispersion relations, and resonances in strongly interacting W_LW_L, Z_L Z_L, and hh scattering
A1 Delgado López, Rafael
A1 Dobado González, Antonio
A1 Llanes Estrada, Felipe José
AB If the electroweak symmetry breaking sector turns out to be strongly interacting, the actively investigated effective theory for longitudinal gauge bosons plus Higgs can be efficiently extended to cover the regime of saturation of unitarity (where the perturbative expansion breaks down). This is achieved by dispersion relations, whose subtraction constants and left cut contribution can be approximately obtained in different ways, giving rise to different unitarization procedures. We illustrate the ideas with the inverse amplitude method, one version of the N/D method, and another improved version of the K matrix. In the three cases we get partial waves which are unitary, analytical with the proper left and right cuts, and in some cases poles in the second Riemann sheet that can be understood as dynamically generated resonances. In addition, they reproduce at next to leading order the perturbative expansion for the five partial waves not vanishing (up to J = 2), and they are renormalization scale (μ) independent. Also the unitarization formalisms are extended to the coupled channel case. Then we apply the results to the elastic scattering amplitude for the longitudinal components of the gauge bosons V = W, Z at high energy. We also compute hh -> hh and the inelastic process VV -> hh which are coupled to the elastic VV channel for custodial isospin I = 0. We numerically compare the three methods for various values of the low-energy couplings and explain the reasons for the differences found in the I = J = 1 partial wave. Then we study the resonances appearing in the different elastic and coupled channels in terms of the effective Lagrangian parameters.
PB Amer Physical Soc
SN 1550-7998
YR 2015
FD 2015-04-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24041
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24041
LA eng
NO © 2015 American Physical Society. The authors thank D. Espriu, M. J. Herrero, J. R. Pelaez, and J. J. Sanz-Cillero for useful conversations. A. D. thanks the CERN TH-Unit for its hospitality during the time some important parts of this work were done. R. L. D. thanks the NEXT institute and the high-energy group at the University of Southampton for their hospitality. The work has been supported by Spanish Grants No. UCM:910309 and No. MINECO:FPA2011-27853-C02-01 and by Grant No. MINECO:BES-2012-056054 (R. L. D.).
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), España
NO Univeresidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
DS Docta Complutense
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