Uses and abuses of effective Lagrangians
Mar, 199232 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 4337-4351
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9203216 [hep-ph]
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)
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