Dilatons Improve (Non)-Goldstones

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contents Shift symmetry forbids conformal coupling of Goldstone bosons from internal symmetries, but not for spontaneously broken conformal symmetry. Its Goldstone boson, the dilaton $D$, admits and indeed requires, an improvement term $ {\cal L}_R \propto R e^{-2D/F_D}$ as it realises the Goldstone matrix element in the effective theory. The improvement, combined with Weyl-gauging, enables conformal coupling to Goldstone bosons and other particles of arbitrary Weyl-weight. While improvement does not affect scattering amplitudes in flat space, it impacts gravitational form factors decisively, giving rise to the dilaton pole in the spin-zero channel. We compute leading-order scalar, fermion, pion, and dilaton form factors, confirming low-energy constraints. The dilaton decoupling limit further implies that the operator driving spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking has scaling dimension $Δ= d-2$.
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Zwicky, Roman
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Shift symmetry forbids conformal coupling of Goldstone bosons from internal symmetries, but not for spontaneously broken conformal symmetry. Its Goldstone boson, the dilaton $D$, admits and indeed requires, an improvement term $ {\cal L}_R \propto R e^{-2D/F_D}$ as it realises the Goldstone matrix element in the effective theory. The improvement, combined with Weyl-gauging, enables conformal coupling to Goldstone bosons and other particles of arbitrary Weyl-weight. While improvement does not affect scattering amplitudes in flat space, it impacts gravitational form factors decisively, giving rise to the dilaton pole in the spin-zero channel. We compute leading-order scalar, fermion, pion, and dilaton form factors, confirming low-energy constraints. The dilaton decoupling limit further implies that the operator driving spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking has scaling dimension $Δ= d-2$.
title Dilatons Improve (Non)-Goldstones
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12914