Published October 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Vacuum instability for model field theories

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

Description

The perturbative vacuum for models in which fermions are coupled to scalar bosons and contain no derivative coupling for the scalar is shown to be unstable at the one-loop level. The instability is due to fluctuations at a sufficiently short-distance scale and is caused by the fermion loop contributions. Possible instabilities in models which couple fermions to vector bosons only are also discussed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., C
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
4
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
1653-1656
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCA