THE LEE-WICK STANDARD MODEL

DOI10.1142/S0217751X10048871zbMATH Open1184.81154arXiv0908.3872MaRDI QIDQ3553645FDOQ3553645

Authors: Mark B. Wise 

Publication date: 21 April 2010

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

Abstract: This article reviews some recent work on a version of the standard model (the Lee-Wick standard model) that contains higher derivative kinetic terms that improve the convergence of loop diagrams removing the quadratic divergence in the Higgs boson mass. Naively higher derivative theories of this type are not acceptable since the higher derivative terms either cause instabilities (from negative energies) or a loss of unitarity (from negative norm states). Lee and Wick provided an interpretation for such theories arguing that theories with higher derivative kinetic terms can be unitary and stable if the states associated with the massive propagator poles, that arise from the higher derivatives, have widths and hence decay and are not in the spectrum of the theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3872

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zbMATH Keywords

higher derivativeLee-Wick

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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