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The one-loop functional as a Berezinian

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We employ notions familiar from supersymmetry for constructing the one-loop functional of general quantum field theories with bosons and fermions (spin < 1). To demonstrate the advantages of such an approach for calculating one-loop divergences, we analyse a simple Yukawa theory with two different versions of a super-heat-kernel expansion. These methods also simplify the calculation of one-loop divergences for non-renormalizable meson--baryon Lagrangians occurring in chiral perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806436,
  title  = {The one-loop functional as a Berezinian},
  author = {H. Neufeld and J. Gasser and G. Ecker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806436},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, Latex, 1 figure embedded