nLab threshold correction

Redirected from "threshold corrections".
Contents

Context

Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

Contents

Idea

In quantum field theory a threshold correction to an effective field theory is an adjustment to its renormalization group flow due to effects in the full theory that are being ignored in the effective field theory; for instance the presence of further particles of high mass in the full theory which do not preserve some symmetry seen in the effective field theory.

References

  • Frank Wilczek, p. 29-31 of 39 in: Beyond The Standard Model: An Answer and Twenty Questions (arXiv:hep-ph/9802400)

  • Alexander Voigt, below (4.32) in: Calculation of Threshold Corrections to Renormalization Group Running in the Exceptional Supersymmetric Standard Model, 2010 (pdf)

Created on January 18, 2019 at 09:18:17. See the history of this page for a list of all contributions to it.