Published July 2018
| Version v1
Journal article
Comment about the vanishing of the vacuum energy in the Wess–Zumino model
- 1. Theory Department, Lebedev Physics Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, Moscow 119991 (Russian Federation)
- 2. L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin str. 2, 119334 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 3. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna and INFN, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)
Description
We check the cancellation of the vacuum energy in the Wess–Zumino model at the two-loop order in the component field formalisms with and without auxiliary fields. We show that in both cases the vacuum energy is equal to zero. However, in the formalism where the auxiliary fields are excluded, the vanishing of the vacuum energy arises due to the cancellation between the potential and kinetic energies, while in the formalism with the auxiliary fields, both terms vanish separately.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.008Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.008;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1804.03394v1;
- PII
- S0370269318303721;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 782
- Journal Page Range
- p. 55-60
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51017395
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FIELD THEORIES; KINETIC ENERGY; SIMULATION; SUPERSYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY; SYMMETRY
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.