Renormalization group and decoupling in curved space. 2. The Standard model and beyond

Mar, 2003
26 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 06 (2003) 004
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Report number:
  • DF-UFJF-03-01

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Abstract:
We continue the study of the renormalization group and decoupling of massive fields in curved space, started in the previous article and analyse the higher derivative sector of the vacuum metric-dependent action of the Standard Model. The QCD sector at low-energies is described in terms of the composite effective fields. For fermions and scalars the massless limit shows perfect correspondence with the conformal anomaly, but similar limit in a massive vector case requires an extra compensating scalar. In all three cases the decoupling goes smoothly and monotonic. A particularly interesting case is the renormalization group flow in the theory with broken supersymmetry, where the sign of one of the beta-functions changes on the way from the UV to IR.
  • renormalization group
  • decoupling
  • space-time
  • field theory: massive
  • derivative: high
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • anomaly: conformal
  • supersymmetry
  • effective action