scholarly journals Diluted mass gap in strongly coupled non-local Yang-Mills

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Frasca ◽  
Anish Ghoshal
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Local Theory ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Mass Gap ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Non Locality

Abstract We investigate the non-perturbative regimes in the class of non-Abelian theories that have been proposed as an ultraviolet completion of 4-D Quantum Field Theory (QFT) generalizing the kinetic energy operators to an infinite series of higher-order derivatives inspired by string field theory. We prove that, at the non-perturbative level, the physical spectrum of the theory is actually corrected by the “infinite number of derivatives” present in the action. We derive a set of Dyson-Schwinger equations in differential form, for correlation functions till two-points, the solution for which are known in the local theory. We obtain that just like in the local theory, the non-local counterpart displays a mass gap, depending also on the mass scale of non-locality, and show that it is damped in the deep UV asymptotically. We point out some possible implications of our result in particle physics and cosmology and discuss aspects of non-local QCD-like scenarios.

Quantum field theory: An effective theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Jean Zinn-Justin
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Microscopic Scale ◽  
Linear Sigma Models

Chapter 8 discusses effective field theory. This concept is inspired by the theory of critical phenomena in statistical physics and based on renormalization group ideas. The basic idea behind effective field theory is that one starts from a microscopic model involving an infinite number of fluctuating degrees of freedom whose interactions are characterized by a microscopic scale and in which, as a result of interactions, a length that is much larger than the microscopic scale, or, equivalently, a mass much smaller than the characteristic mass scale of the initial model, is generated. The chapter illustrates this topic with examples. It also stresses that all quantum field theories as applied to particle physics or statistical physics are only effective (i.e. not fundamental) theories. Besides the problem of a phi4 type field theory with a large mass field, two more complicated examples are discussed: the Gross–Neveu and the non–linear sigma models.

scholarly journals INFRARED ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1727-1734 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO FRASCA
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Asymptotic Series ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Infrared Analysis ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
The Given

We show that for a λϕ4 theory having many components, the solution with all equal components in the infrared regime is stable with respect to our expansion given by a recently devised approach to analyze strongly coupled quantum field theory. The analysis is extended to a pure Yang–Mills theory showing how, in this case, the given asymptotic series exists. In this way, many components theories in the infrared regime can be mapped to a single component scalar field theory obtaining their spectrum.

scholarly journals A Brief Review of Implicit Regularization and Its Connection with the BPHZ Theorem

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 956
Author(s):  
Dafne Carolina Arias-Perdomo ◽  
Adriano Cherchiglia ◽  
Brigitte Hiller ◽  
Marcos Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Gauge Symmetry ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Analytic Extension ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
The Core ◽  
Striking Success

Quantum Field Theory, as the keystone of particle physics, has offered great insights into deciphering the core of Nature. Despite its striking success, by adhering to local interactions, Quantum Field Theory suffers from the appearance of divergent quantities in intermediary steps of the calculation, which encompasses the need for some regularization/renormalization prescription. As an alternative to traditional methods, based on the analytic extension of space–time dimension, frameworks that stay in the physical dimension have emerged; Implicit Regularization is one among them. We briefly review the method, aiming to illustrate how Implicit Regularization complies with the BPHZ theorem, which implies that it respects unitarity and locality to arbitrary loop order. We also pedagogically discuss how the method complies with gauge symmetry using one- and two-loop examples in QED and QCD.

Field Theory in Particle Physics, Volume 1 and Quantum Field Theory and Gauge Theories of Strong and Electroweak Interactions

Physics Today ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 86-88
Author(s):  
B. de Wit ◽  
J. Smith ◽  
Lewis H. Ryder ◽  
Peter Becher ◽  
Manfred Böhm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Electroweak Interactions

scholarly journals SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG–MILLS THEORIES WITH EXACT SUPERSYMMETRY ON THE LATTICE

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (30n31) ◽  
pp. 5057-5132 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANOSH JOSEPH
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Topological Field Theory ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Dimensional Lattice ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Gravitational Theories ◽  
Topological Field ◽  
Perturbative Renormalization ◽  
The One

Inspired by the ideas from topological field theory it is possible to rewrite the supersymmetric charges of certain classes of extended supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM) theories in such a way that they are compatible with the discretization on a Euclidean space–time lattice. Such theories are known as maximally twisted SYM theories. In this review we discuss the construction and some applications of such classes of theories. The one-loop perturbative renormalization of the four-dimensional lattice [Formula: see text] SYM is discussed in particular. The lattice theories constructed using twisted approach play an important role in investigating the thermal phases of strongly coupled SYM theories and also the thermodynamic properties of their dual gravitational theories.

My Life with Quarks

2015 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 66-70
Author(s):  
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Gim Mechanism ◽  
The Many ◽  
Doctoral Work ◽  
Electroweak Model

This is a personal, anecdotal and autobiographical account of my early endeavors in particle physics, emphasizing how they interwove with the conception and eventual acceptance of the quark hypothesis. I focus on the years from 1958, when my doctoral work at Harvard was completed, to 1970, when John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I introduced the GIM mechanism, thereby extending the electroweak model to include all known particles, and some that were not then known. I have not described the profound advances in quantum field theory and the many difficult and ingenious experimental efforts that undergird my story which is not intended to be an inclusive record of this exciting decade of my discipline. My tale begins almost two years before I met Murray and over five years before the invention of quarks.

scholarly journals DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY FROM QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350003
Author(s):  
W. F. CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Differential Geometry ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
And Mathematics

We review the historical development and physical ideas of topological Yang–Mills theory and explain how quantum field theory, a physical framework describing subatomic physics, can be used as a tool to study differential geometry. We further emphasize that this phenomenon demonstrates that the inter-relation between theoretical physics and mathematics have come into a new stage.

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