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Everlasting interaction: polarization summation without a Landau pole

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-08-27 v4

Abstract

We propose an external field approach to evaluating effective action allowing the interaction to act everywhere at all times (everlasting). Requiring that the asymptotic gauge fields are always-interacting, we implement displacement fields encoding polarization corrections into the derivation of effective action. The result is a novel polarization summation for one-cut reducible loop diagrams, which can be applied to two cases: transient quasi-constant electromagnetic fields, and everlasting interactions. In the first case, a perturbative expansion of our result recovers the Schwinger-Dyson reducible diagram series with a Landau pole. The everlasting summation evaluated in nonperturbative fashion removes the Landau pole, providing a new avenue for modeling strongly interacting theories.

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@article{arxiv.2311.00891,
  title  = {Everlasting interaction: polarization summation without a Landau pole},
  author = {Stefan Evans and Johann Rafelski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00891},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

7 pages, discussion of prior work relegated to separate comment [arXiv:2403.09745]

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