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Investigations of Infrared Divergence in Quantum Field Theory from Unitarities and Analyticities

PENG Hong-An^,

Department of Physics,Peking University,100871

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In this paper we have investigated the infrared divergence in QFT from the point of view of unitarities and analyticities.We have shown that in QED,the infrared divergence for the imaginary part of a bubble diagram at any order of a would be canceled each other between the set of cutting-bubble diagrams got from cutting rules of Landau Cutkosky.From the concept of generalized optical theorem and the hypothesis of analyticities of the scattering amplitude,we have drawn the physical connotation from the general formula of unitarity.for "forward scattering processes",and thus getting a criterion in QED for whether in a process there exist infrared divergence or not.Also from the variation of thresholds of a bubble diagram of π(q ²)in the -q ²plane as the photon mass λ approaches to zero,we have shown diagrammatically how the infrared divergence in the corresponding cutting-bubble diagrams be canceled between them.At last we give a short discussion about difficulties and problems for treating infrared divergence in QCD.

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Investigations of Infrared Divergence in Quantum Field Theory from Unitarities and Analyticities

PENG Hong-An^,

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Department of Physics,Peking University,100871

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Abstract:In this paper we have investigated the infrared divergence in QFT from the point of view of unitarities and analyticities.We have shown that in QED,the infrared divergence for the imaginary part of a bubble diagram at any order of a would be canceled each other between the set of cutting-bubble diagrams got from cutting rules of Landau Cutkosky.From the concept of generalized optical theorem and the hypothesis of analyticities of the scattering amplitude,we have drawn the physical connotation from the general formula of unitarity.for "forward scattering processes",and thus getting a criterion in QED for whether in a process there exist infrared divergence or not.Also from the variation of thresholds of a bubble diagram of π(q²)in the -q²plane as the photon mass λ approaches to zero,we have shown diagrammatically how the infrared divergence in the corresponding cutting-bubble diagrams be canceled between them.At last we give a short discussion about difficulties and problems for treating infrared divergence in QCD.