The effective potential in nonconformal gauge theories

DOI10.1142/S0217751X17500038zbMATH Open1359.81135arXiv1409.2820MaRDI QIDQ2974396FDOQ2974396

Authors: F. T. Brandt, D. G. C. Mckeon, Farrukh Chishtie 

Publication date: 7 April 2017

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By using the renormalization group (RG) equation it has proved possible to sum logarithmic corrections to quantities that arise due to quantum effects in field theories. In particular, the effective potential V in the Standard Model in the limit that there are no massive parameters in the classical action (the "conformal limit") has been subject to this analysis, as has the effective potential in a scalar theory with a quartic self coupling and in massless scalar electrodynamics. Having multiple coupling constants and/or mass parameters in the initial action complicates this analysis, as then several mass scales arise. We show how to address this problem by considering the effective potential in scalar electrodynamics when the scalar field has a tree level mass term. In addition to summing logarithmic corrections by using the RG equation, we also consider the consequences of the condition V'(v)=0 where v is the vacuum expectation value of the scalar. If V is expanded in powers of the logarithms that arise, then it proves possible to show that either v is zero or that V is independent of the scalar. (That is, either there is no spontaneous symmetry breaking or the vacuum expectation value is not determined by minimizing V as V is "flat".)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2820

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zbMATH Keywords

effective potentialmassive scalars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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