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Three-loop chiral effective potential in the Wess-Zumino model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-07 v2

Abstract

We calculate the three-loop contribution to the chiral effective potential in the massless Wess-Zumino model. It is shown that while the non-renormalisation theorem forbids divergent contributions to the chiral potential, in the massless case the finite corrections survive. There are only three three-loop supergraphs that give rise to a superfield effective action in the pure chiral sector. Two of them are UV finite while the third requires one-loop counterterm corresponding to the chiral field renormalisation.

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@article{arxiv.2503.03358,
  title  = {Three-loop chiral effective potential in the Wess-Zumino model},
  author = {I. L. Buchbinder and R. M. Iakhibbaev and D. I. Kazakov and D. M. Tolkachev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03358},
  year   = {2025}
}
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