Integrating out the standard Higgs field in the path integral

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00551-XMaRDI QIDQ1904598zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Carsten Grosse-Knetter, S. Dittmaier

Publication date 2 January 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9505266

zbMATH Keywords

background field methodgauged nonlinear sigma modelheavy Higgs effectsHiggs bosonslow energy effective LagrangianStueckelberg formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We integrate out the Higgs boson in the electroweak standard model at one loop and construct a low-energy effective Lagrangian assuming that the Higgs mass is much larger than the gauge-boson masses. Instead of applying diagrammatical techniques, we integrate out the Higgs boson directly in the path integral, which turns out to be much simpler. By using the background-field method and the Stueckelberg formalism, we directly find a manifestly gauge-invariant result. The heavy-Higgs effects on fermionic couplings are derived, too. At one loop the $logMH$-terms of the heavy-Higgs limit of the electroweak standard model coincide with the UV-divergent terms in the gauged non-linear $sigma$-model, but vertex functions differ in addition by finite constant terms. Finally, the leading Higgs effects to some physical processes are calculated from the effective Lagrangian.

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