MASS AND COUPLING CONSTANT LIMITS FROM CONVERGENCE CONDITIONS ON THE EFFECTIVE CHARGE IN QED

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00001105MaRDI QIDQ4512896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. H. Field

Publication date 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9811398

zbMATH Keywords

Quantum ElectrodynamicsFermion Mass SingularitiesRenormalization Group InvarianceStandard Electroweak Model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

Abstract: The massless fermion limit of QED is discussed. For on-shell renormalisation the high energy behaviour fixes no lower limit on the mass of the lightest fermion if the fine structure constant $alpha$ is allowed to vary. The choice of an arbitary (space-like) subtraction point does, however, fix a lower limit on the mass of the lightest fermion, for any subtraction scale $mu$, if the effective charge $aefmu$ respects both quantum mechanical superposition and renormalisation scale invariance. Limits on the values of $alpha$ or the electron mass are obtained within the Standard Electroweak Model by requiring convergence of $aefmz$.

Cites work

• Mass Singularities of Feynman Amplitudes
• The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman

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