Radiative corrections in bumblebee electrodynamics

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.08.004zbMATH Open1364.81244arXiv1506.07232OpenAlexW757826224MaRDI QIDQ2396542FDOQ2396542


Authors: R. V. Maluf, J. E. G. Silva, Carlos A. S. Almeida Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 June 2017

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

Abstract: We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat spacetimes. The bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a smooth quadratic potential, the massless excitation (Nambu-Goldstone boson) can be identified as the photon, transversal to the vacuum expectation value of the bumblebee field. Besides, there is a massive excitation associated with the longitudinal mode and whose presence leads to instability in the spectrum of the theory. By using the principal-value prescription, we show that no one-loop radiative corrections to the mass term is generated. Moreover, the bumblebee self-energy is not transverse, showing that the propagation of the longitudinal mode can not be excluded from the effective theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07232




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