EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS IN N=4 SUPERYANG-MILLS THEORY WITH SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN SU(2) GAUGE SYMMETRY

Apr, 1984
21 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 254 (1985) 367-387
  • Published: 1985
Report number:
  • MPI-PAE-PTH-25-84

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Using N = 1 supergraph techniques, we show that no dim. ⩽ 6 effective operators can be generated at the one-loop level in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group SU(2) spontaneously broken down to U(1). Moreover, all gauge-invariant three-point functions with external massless particles vanish identically while nongauge-invariant contributions vanish on-shell. We have also calculated an example of a nonvanishing four-point scattering amplitude, showing that the theory is pertubatively nontrivial.
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2)
  • SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
  • N-POINT FUNCTION
  • FEYNMAN GRAPH: HIGHER-ORDER
  • decoupling
  • DECOUPLING: COUPLING