Gravitational Coleman-Weinberg mechanism

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2023)232MaRDI QIDQ6041752zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

models of quantum gravityspontaneous symmetry breakinghierarchy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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.

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