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Off-shell renormalization of the abelian Higgs model in the unitary gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss the off-shell renormalization properties of the abelian Higgs model in the unitary gauge. The model is not renormalizable according to the usual power counting rules. In this paper, however, we show that with a proper choice of interpolating fields for the massive photon and the Higgs particle, their off-shell Green functions can be renormalized. An analysis of the nature of the extra singularities in the unitary gauge is given, and a recipe for the off-shell renormalization is provided.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0108217,
  title  = {Off-shell renormalization of the abelian Higgs model in the unitary gauge},
  author = {Hidenori Sonoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0108217},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages, 9 figures, latex