English

Complex-mass scheme and perturbative unitarity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive cutting rules for loop integrals containing propagators with complex masses. Using a field-theoretical model of a heavy vector boson interacting with a light fermion, we demonstrate that the complex-mass scheme respects unitarity order by order in a perturbative expansion provided that the renormalized coupling constant remains real.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.1684,
  title  = {Complex-mass scheme and perturbative unitarity},
  author = {T. Bauer and J. Gegelia and G. Japaridze and S. Scherer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1684},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics A

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