Gravitational Coleman-Weinberg mechanism

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2023)232arXiv2212.01785MaRDI QIDQ6041752FDOQ6041752

Authors: Clara Álvarez-Luna, Sergio de la Calle-Leal, J. A. R. Cembranos, Juan José Sanz-Cillero 

Publication date: 12 May 2023

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Coleman-Weinberg mechanism provides a procedure by which a scalar field, which initially has no mass parameters, acquires a mass due to the anomalous nature of scale symmetry. Loop corrections trigger a spontaneous symmetry breaking and the appearance of a non-trivial vacuum. We first review the basic example of the ColemanWeinberg mechanism, scalar Quantum Electrodynamics, in a perturbative regime where the scalar particle becomes massive through photon loops. We then present the main results of this article, what we name the gravitational Coleman-Weinberg mechanism: we analyse the same effect in a gravitational theory without explicit energy scales at tree-level. Finally, we also study the mechanism for two scalar fields in the mentioned gravitational theory. We will derive the gravitational Coleman-Weinberg potentials, analyse the parameter space where we have a symmetry breaking, and obtain the value of the corresponding scalar masses.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01785

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zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityspontaneous symmetry breakinghierarchy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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