Unitarity and Dilaton effective theory

Abstract

From the low-energy effective theory of dilatons, consistent with the scale anomaly, we calculate the $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes of dilatons. We find that the one-loop amplitude violates the unitarity bound as the scattering energy approaches the cutoff of the effective theory, $\sqrt{s}=\sqrt{4\pi }{f}_D$. We then show that the inclusion of the next-to-lightest state, namely the spin-2 state, of mass around the cutoff improves the unitarity. The unitarity argument suggests that the mass ratio of the dilaton and the spin-2 state is proportional to the square of the Miransky-BKT scaling of the near conformal dynamics.

arXiv comment10 pages, 4 figures

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