On infrared problems of effective Lagrangians of massive spin 2 fields coupled to gauge fields

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.10.003zbMATH Open1349.81193arXiv1610.02886OpenAlexW2530649486MaRDI QIDQ347583FDOQ347583

Authors: Fabrizio Canfora, Alex Giacomini, Alfonso R. Zerwekh 

Publication date: 30 November 2016

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

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the interactions of a massive spin-2 particles charged under both Abelian and non-Abelian group using the Porrati-Rahman Lagrangian. This theory is valid up to an intrinsic cutoff scale. Phenomenologically a theory valid up to a cutoff scale is sensible as all known higher spin particles are non-fundamental and it is shown that indeed this action can be used to estimate some relevant cross section. Such action necessarily includes Stuckelberg field and therefore it is necessary to fix the corresponding gauge symmetry. We show that this theory, when the Stuckelberg symmetry is gauge-fixed, possesses a non-trivial infrared problem. A gauge fixing ambiguity arises which is akin to the Gribov problem in QCD in the Abelian case as well. In some cases (such as when the space-time is the four-dimensional torus) the vacuum copies can be found analytically. A similar phenomenon also appears in the case of Proca fields. A very interesting feature of these copies is that they arise only for "large enough" gauge potentials. This opens the possibility to avoid the appearance of such gauge fixing ambiguities by using a Gribov-Zwanziger like approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02886

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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