Symmetry-improved 2PI approach to the Goldstone-boson IR problem of the SM effective potential

The effective potential of the Standard Model (SM), from three loop order and higher, suffers from infrared (IR) divergences arising from quantum effects due to massless would-be Goldstone bosons associated with the longitudinal polarizations of the W± and Z bosons. Such IR pathologies also hinder a...

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Main Authors: Apostolos Pilaftsis, Daniele Teresi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321316300013