One-loop matching and running with covariant derivative expansion

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)123zbMATH Open1384.81103arXiv1604.01019MaRDI QIDQ1745536FDOQ1745536

Authors: Brian Henning, Xiaochuan Lu, Hitoshi Murayama 

Publication date: 17 April 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop tools for performing effective field theory (EFT) calculations in a manifestly gauge-covariant fashion. We clarify how functional methods account for one-loop diagrams resulting from the exchange of both heavy and light fields, as some confusion has recently arisen in the literature. To efficiently evaluate functional traces containing these "mixed" one-loop terms, we develop a new covariant derivative expansion (CDE) technique that is capable of evaluating a much wider class of traces than previous methods. The technique is detailed in an appendix, so that it can be read independently from the rest of this work. We review the well-known matching procedure to one-loop order with functional methods. What we add to this story is showing how to isolate one-loop terms coming from diagrams involving only heavy propagators from diagrams with mixed heavy and light propagators. This is done using a non-local effective action, which physically connects to the notion of "integrating out" heavy fields. Lastly, we show how to use a CDE to do running analyses in EFTs, extit{i.e.} to obtain the anomalous dimension matrix. We demonstrate the methodologies by several explicit example calculations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01019

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupeffective field theoriesgauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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