We present a dispersive analysis of the decay amplitude for $etatoetapipi$ that is based on the fundamental principles of analyticity and unitarity. In this framework, final-state interactions are fully taken into account. Our dispersive representation relies only on input for the $pipi$ and $pieta$ scattering phase shifts. Isospin symmetry allows us to describe both the charged and neutral decay channel in terms of the same function. The dispersion relation contains subtraction constants that cannot be fixed by unitarity. We determine these parameters by a fit to Dalitz-plot data from the VES and BES-III experiments. We study the prediction of a low-energy theorem and compare the dispersive fit to variants of chiral perturbation theory.
We present a comprehensive analysis of the dispersion relations for the doubly-virtual process $gamma^*gamma^*topipi$. Starting from the Bardeen-Tung-Tarrach amplitudes, we first derive the kernel functions that define the system of Roy-Steiner equations for the partial-wave helicity amplitudes. We then formulate the solution of these partial-wave dispersion relations in terms of Omn`es functions, with special attention paid to the role of subtraction constants as critical for the application to hadronic light-by-light scattering. In particular, we explain for the first time why for some amplitudes the standard Muskhelishvili-Omn`es solution applies, while for others a modified approach based on their left-hand cut is required unless subtractions are introduced. In the doubly-virtual case, the analytic structure of the vector-resonance partial waves then gives rise to anomalous thresholds, even for space-like virtualities. We develop a strategy to account for these effects in the numerical solution, illustrated in terms of the $D$-waves in $gamma^*gamma^*topipi$, which allows us to predict the doubly-virtual responses of the $f_2(1270)$ resonance. In general, our results form the basis for the incorporation of two-meson intermediate states into hadronic light-by-light scattering beyond the $S$-wave contribution.
In this paper we investigate neutrino oscillations with altered dispersion relations in the presence of sterile neutrinos. Modified dispersion relations represent an agnostic way to parameterize new physics. Models of this type have been suggested to explain global neutrino oscillation data, including deviations from the standard three-neutrino paradigm as observed by a few experiments. We show that, unfortunately, in this type of models new tensions arise turning them incompatible with global data.
We review various applications of dispersion relations (DRs) to the electromagnetic structure of hadrons. We discuss the way DRs allow one to extract information on hadron structure constants by connecting information from complementary scattering processes. We consider the real and virtual Compton scattering processes off the proton, and summarize recent advances in the DR analysis of experimental data to extract the proton polarizabilities, in comparison with alternative studies based on chiral effective field theories. We discuss a multipole analysis of real Compton scattering data, along with a DR fit of the energy-dependent dynamical polarizabilities. Furthermore, we review new sum rules for the double-virtual Compton scattering process off the proton, which allow for model independent relations between polarizabilities in real and virtual Compton scattering, and moments of nucleon structure functions. The information on the double-virtual Compton scattering is used to predict and constrain the polarizability corrections to muonic hydrogen spectroscopy.
Forward amplitude analyses constitute an important approach in the investigation of the energy dependence of the total hadronic cross-section $sigma_{tot}$ and the $rho$ parameter. The standard picture indicates for $sigma_{tot}$ a leading log-squared dependence at the highest c.m. energies, in accordance with the Froissart-Lukaszuk-Martin bound. Beyond this log-squared (L2) leading dependence, other amplitude analyses have considered a log-raised-to-gamma form (L$gamma$), with $gamma$ as a real free fit parameter. In this case, analytic connections with $rho$ can be obtained either through dispersion relations (derivative forms), or asymptotic uniqueness (Phragmen-Lindeloff theorems). In this work we present a detailed discussion on the similarities and mainly the differences between the Derivative Dispersion Relation (DDR) and Asymptotic Uniqueness (AU) approaches and results, with focus on the L$gamma$ and L2 leading terms. We also develop new Regge-Gribov fits with updated dataset on $sigma_{tot}$ and $rho$ from $pp$ and $bar{p}p$ scattering, in the region 5 GeV-8 TeV. The recent tension between the TOTEM and ATLAS results at 7 TeV and mainly 8 TeV is considered in the data reductions. Our main conclusions are: (1) all fit results present agreement with the experimental data analyzed and the goodness-of-fit is slightly better in case of the DDR approach; (2) by considering only the TOTEM data at the LHC region, the fits with L$gamma$ indicate $gammasim 2.0pm 0.2$ (AU) and $gammasim 2.3pm 0.1$ (DDR); (3) by including the ATLAS data the fits provide $gammasim 1.9pm 0.1$ (AU) and $gammasim 2.2pm 0.2$ (DDR); (4) in the formal and practical contexts, the DDR approach is more adequate for the energy interval investigated than the AU approach. A review on the analytic results for $sigma_{tot}$ and $rho$ from the Regge-Gribov, DDR and AU approaches is presented.
We perform a dispersive theoretical study of the reaction gammagammato pi^0pi^0 emphasizing the low energy region. The large source of theoretical uncertainty to calculate the gammagammatopi^0pi^0 total cross section for sqrt{s}gtrsim 0.5 GeV within the dispersive approach is removed. This is accomplished by taking one more subtraction in the dispersion relations, where the extra subtraction constant is fixed by considering new low energy constraints, one of them further refined by taking into consideration the f_0(980) region. This allows us to make sharper predictions for the cross section for sqrt{s}lesssim 0.8 GeV, below the onset of D-wave contributions. In this way, were new more precise data on gammagammatopi^0pi^0 available one might then distinguish between different parameterizations of the pipi isoscalar S-wave. We also elaborate on the width of the sigma resonance to gammagamma and provide new values.