One-loop elastic amplitudes from tree-level elasticity in 2d

Abstract

In this paper we extend the study initiated in [1] to the computation of one-loop elastic amplitudes. We consider 1+1 dimensional massive bosonic Lagrangians with polynomial-like potentials and absence of inelastic processes at the tree level; starting from these assumptions we show how to write sums of one-loop diagrams as products and integrals of tree-level amplitudes. We derive in this way a universal formula for the one-loop two-to-two S-matrices in terms of tree S-matrices. We test our results on different integrable theories, such as sinh-Gordon, Bullough-Dodd and the full class of simply-laced affine Toda theories, finding perfect agreement with the bootstrapped S-matrices known in the literature. We show how Landau singularities in amplitudes are naturally captured by our universal formula while they are lost in results based on unitarity-cut methods implemented in the past [2, 3].