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Weyl Consistency Conditions and $\gamma_{5}$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-07-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The treatment of γ5\gamma_{5} in Dimensional Regularization leads to ambiguities in field-theoretic calculations, of which one example is the coefficient of a particular term in the four-loop gauge β\beta-functions of the Standard Model. Using Weyl Consistency Conditions, we present a scheme-independent relation between the coefficient of this term and a corresponding term in the three-loop Yukawa β\beta-functions, where a semi-na\"ive treatment of γ5\gamma_{5} is sufficient, thereby fixing this ambiguity. We briefly outline an argument by which the same method fixes similar ambiguities at higher orders.

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@article{arxiv.1901.02749,
  title  = {Weyl Consistency Conditions and $\gamma_{5}$},
  author = {C. Poole and A. E. Thomsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02749},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures. Version 2 notation updated to match Ref. [16], text expanded, calculation details clarified, conclusions unaffected

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