An extraordinary mass invariant and an obstruction in a massive superspin one half model made with a chiral dotted spinor superfield

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.07.056zbMATH Open1364.81220arXiv1505.06838OpenAlexW432684118MaRDI QIDQ2396534FDOQ2396534

John A. Dixon

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An earlier paper introduced an action for a new kind of irreducible massive superspin one half multiplet, using BRST cohomological techniques including `BRST Recycling'. A mass term was introduced in the earlier paper. A second mass term is discussed in this paper. This new mass invariant is an `Extraordinary Invariant'--it has Zinn sources in it. The natural treatment for this situation is to `Complete the Action' so that the new action yields zero for the BRST Poisson Bracket. In the present case, this Completion meets a BRST Obstruction. Setting the coefficient of this `Completion Obstruction' to zero restores the massive superspin one half supermultiplet with a new mass made from the two mass terms. Usually an Obstruction appears as an Anomaly at one loop perturbation theory, but this is a different mechanism to produce it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06838

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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