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In a previous paper we have presented a general formalism for computing Feynman diagrams for scalar fields in curved spacetime at any loop order using heat kernel methods. The main technique used is the expansion of the fully off-diagonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Igor Carneiro , Gero von Gersdorff

In this paper we present a novel technique based on deep reinforcement learning that allows for numerical analytic continuation of integrals that are often encountered in one-loop diagrams in quantum field theory. In order to extract…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-25 Andreas Windisch , Thomas Gallien , Christopher Schwarzlmueller

We study the Schwinger mechanism by a uniform electric field in ${\rm dS}_2$ and ${\rm AdS}_2$ and the curvature effect on the Schwinger effect, and further propose a thermal interpretation of the Schwinger formula in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Sang Pyo Kim

We study two-loop quantum corrections to the low-energy effective actions in N=(2,2) and N=(4,4) SQED in the Coulomb branch. In the latter model, the low-energy effective action is described by a generalized Kahler potential which depends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 I. B. Samsonov

We shall develop a general technique to obtain the super heat kernel coefficients of an arbitrary second order operator in $N=1$ superspace. We focus on the space of conformal supergravity here but the method presented is equally applicable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Ka-Hei Leung

A new method is introduced for doing calculations of quantum field theories in planar geometries which the metric depends on just one coordinate. In contrast to previous method, this method can be used in any planar geometry, not only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Davood Allahbakhshi

We study one-loop low-energy effective action in the hypermultiplet sector for ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal models. Any such a model contains ${\cal N}=2$ vector multiplet and some number of hypermultiplets. Gauge group $G$ is assumed to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 I. L. Buchbinder N. G. Pletnev

We summarize our recently proposed approach to quantum field theory on noncommutative curved spacetimes. We make use of the Drinfel'd twist deformed differential geometry of Julius Wess and his group in order to define an action functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-24 Alexander Schenkel

In this talk we study beyond Standard Model scenarios where the Higgs is non-linearly realized. The one-loop ultraviolet divergences of the low-energy effective theory at next-to-leading order, O(p^4), are computed by means of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-03 Feng-Kun Guo , Pedro Ruiz-Femenia , Juan Jose Sanz-Cillero

We develop a universal approach to the one-loop effective field theory (EFT) using the Covariant Derivative Expansion (CDE) method. We generalise previous results to include broader classes of UV models, showing how expressions previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-11 Aleksandra Drozd , John Ellis , Jérémie Quevillon , Tevong You

The conventional results for hard thermal loops, which are the building blocks of resummed perturbation theory in thermal field theories, have collinear singularities when external momenta are light-like. It is shown that by taking into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Fritjof Flechsig , Anton K. Rebhan

We investigate the derivation of reggeon transition vertices from Lipatov's gauge invariant effective action for high energy processes in QCD. In particular we address the question of longitudinal integrations in order to reduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-19 Martin Hentschinski

One-loop effective action of noncommutative scalar field theory with cubic self-interaction is studied. Utilizing worldline formulation, both planar and nonplanar part of the effective action are computed explicitly. We find complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Youngjai Kiem , Soo-Jong Rey , Haru-Tada Sato , Jung-Tay Yee

We use a functional approach to study various aspects of the quantum effective dynamics of moving, planar, dispersive mirrors, coupled to scalar or Dirac fields, in different numbers of dimensions. We first compute the Euclidean effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We derive the effective angular momentum operator to $1/m^2$ and one-loop order in non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). In both dimensional and three-momentum-cutoff regularization schemes, we obtain the non-relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Panying Chen , Xiangdong Ji , Yue Zhang

The trace of the heat kernel is expanded in a basis of nonlocal curvature invariants of $N$th order. The coefficients of this expansion (the nonlocal form factors) are calculated to third order in the curvature inclusive. The early-time and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 A. O. Barvinsky , Yu. V. Gusev , G. A. Vilkovisky , V. V. Zhytnikov

In light of upcoming observations modelling perturbations in dark energy and modified gravity models has become an important topic of research. We develop an effective action to construct the components of the perturbed dark energy momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard A. Battye , Jonathan A. Pearson

We apply the worldline formalism to the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model and obtain an expression for the one-loop effective action which provides an efficient way for computing Schwinger functions in this theory. Using this expression we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-08 Sebastián Franchino Viñas , Pablo Pisani

We compute the divergent contributions to the one-loop action of the U(1) Abelian Higgs model. The calculation allows for a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker space-time and a time-dependent expectation value for the scalar field. Treating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Damien P. George , Sander Mooij , Marieke Postma

In this paper we will present very recent results obtained in the ambit of quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetime. We utilize a newly developed non-perturbative heat kernel asymptotic expansion on homogeneous Abelian bundles over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Guglielmo Fucci , Ivan G. Avramidi