One-loop Self-energy and Counterterms in a Massive Yang-Mills Theory based on the Nonlinearly Realized Gauge Group
Abstract
In this paper we evaluate the self-energy of the vector mesons at one loop in our recently proposed subtraction scheme for massive nonlinearly realized SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. We check the fulfillment of physical unitarity. The resulting self-mass can be compared with the value obtained in the massive Yang-Mills theory based on the Higgs mechanism, consisting in extra terms due to the presence of the Higgs boson (tadpoles included). Moreover we evaluate all the one-loop counterterms necessary for the next order calculations. By construction they satisfy all the equations of the model (Slavnov-Taylor, local functional equation and Landau gauge equation). They are sufficient to make all the one-loop amplitudes finite through the hierarchy encoded in the local functional equation.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.0644,
title = {One-loop Self-energy and Counterterms in a Massive Yang-Mills Theory based on the Nonlinearly Realized Gauge Group},
author = {Daniele Bettinelli and Ruggero Ferrari and Andrea Quadri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0644},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
26 pages, 12 figures, minor changes, final version accepted by Phys. Rev. D, typos corrected in eqs.(8),(17),(27),(28)