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On capped Higgs positivity cone

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https://doi.org/10.52396/JUSTC-2023-0159
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  • Author Bio:

    Dong-Yu Hong is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research mainly focuses on positivity bounds in effective field theories

    Zhuo-Hui Wang is currently a master’s student at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research mainly focuses on positivity bounds in effective field theories

    Shuang-Yong Zhou is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nottingham in 2012 and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at SISSA in Trieste, Case Western Reserve University, and Imperial College London. His current research interests include S-matrix bootstrap/positivity bounds in effective field theories and their applications in particle physics and gravitational theories, as well as nontopological solitons and nonperturbative field simulations

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: zhoushy@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 22 November 2023
  • Accepted Date: 05 March 2024
  • Available Online: 12 October 2024
  • The Wilson coefficients of the standard model effective field theory are subject to a series of positivity bounds. It has been shown that while the positivity part of the ultraviolet (UV) partial wave unitarity leads to the Wilson coefficients living in a convex cone, further including the nonpositivity part caps the cone from above. For Higgs scattering, a capped positivity cone was obtained using a simplified, linear unitarity condition without utilizing the full internal symmetries of Higgs scattering. Here, we further implement stronger nonlinear unitarity conditions from the UV, which generically gives rise to better bounds. We show that, for the Higgs case in particular, while the nonlinear unitarity conditions per se do not enhance the bounds, the fuller use of the internal symmetries do shrink the capped positivity cone significantly.
    The bound on two dim-8 coefficients of the Higgs. The orange and red regions represent the results of the current paper using linear and nonlinear unitarity conditions, respectively, with all the symmetries of the SMEFT Higgs included, while the blue region represents the previous result using linear unitarity conditions but without full Higgs symmetry.
    The Wilson coefficients of the standard model effective field theory are subject to a series of positivity bounds. It has been shown that while the positivity part of the ultraviolet (UV) partial wave unitarity leads to the Wilson coefficients living in a convex cone, further including the nonpositivity part caps the cone from above. For Higgs scattering, a capped positivity cone was obtained using a simplified, linear unitarity condition without utilizing the full internal symmetries of Higgs scattering. Here, we further implement stronger nonlinear unitarity conditions from the UV, which generically gives rise to better bounds. We show that, for the Higgs case in particular, while the nonlinear unitarity conditions per se do not enhance the bounds, the fuller use of the internal symmetries do shrink the capped positivity cone significantly.
    • We cap the positivity cone from above by making fuller use of unitarity conditions.
    • We present a systematic method for obtaining more robust positivity bounds by employing nonlinear unitarity conditions and incorporating all symmetries of the SMEFT Higgs.
    • We explain the differences in performance between linear and nonlinear unitarity conditions, demonstrating how the nonlinear unitarity conditions can be reduced to the linear ones.

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    Figure  1.  Positivity regions in the 2D subspaces of $ C_1, C_2 $, and $ C_3 $ by using linear and nonlinear unitarity conditions. Here, $ \displaystyle \bar{C_i}=C_i \varLambda^4 /(4\pi)^2 $. The orange and red regions are the results of the current paper using linear and nonlinear unitarity conditions respectively, while the blue region are from Ref. [73], which uses linear unitarity conditions but without using full Higgs symmetries. The orange and red regions are the same. We choose $ \displaystyle N=10,\; \ell_M=20 $ and use 42 null constraints.

    Figure  2.  Convergence of positivity (upper and lower) bounds with the number of null constraint. We choose $ \displaystyle N=10,\; \ell_M=20 $.

    Figure  3.  Convergence of positivity (upper and lower) bounds with the numerical truncations $ \ell_M $ and N. Here, $ \displaystyle \bar{C_i}=C_i \varLambda^4 /(4\pi)^2 $. 42 null constraints are used.

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