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We investigate the perturbative integrability of different quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions at one loop. Starting from massive bosonic Lagrangians with polynomial-like potentials and absence of inelastic processes at the tree level, we derive a formula reproducing one-loop inelastic amplitudes for arbitrary numbers of external legs. We show that any one-loop inelastic amplitude is equal to its tree-level version, in which the masses of particles and propagators are corrected by one-loop bubble diagrams. These amplitudes are nonzero in general and counterterms need to be added to the Lagrangian to restore the integrability at one loop. For the class of simply-laced affine Toda theories, we show that the necessary counterterms are obtained by scaling the potential with an overall multiplicative factor, proving in this way the one-loop integrability of these models. Even though we focus on bosonic theories with polynomial-like interactions, we expect that the on-shell techniques used in this paper to compute amplitudes can be applied to several other models.
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Polvara, D. One-loop inelastic amplitudes from tree-level elasticity in 2d. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 20 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2023)020
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