Uses and abuses of effective Lagrangians

Mar, 1992
32 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 4337-4351
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Report number:
  • MCGILL-92-05,
  • UDEM-LPN-TH-84

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Abstract:
Motivated by past and recent analyses we critically re-examine the use of effective lagrangians in the literature to constrain new physics and to determine the `physics reach' of future experiments. We demonstrate that most calculations, such as those involving anomalous trilinear gauge-boson couplings (TGV's), considerably overestimate loop-induced effects. In contrast to previous critics of these loop estimates, we argue that the gauge invariance of the low-energy lagrangian is irrelevant to this conclusion. We also show that the implications of custodial symmetry for TGV's are weaker than has been claimed in the literature.
  • effective Lagrangian
  • coupling: (3gauge boson)
  • (3gauge boson): coupling
  • electroweak interaction: rho parameter
  • rho parameter: electroweak interaction
  • renormalization
  • CP: violation
  • coupling: (Z0 tau)
  • (Z0 tau): coupling
  • symmetry: SU(2)