Renormalization of high-energy Lorentz-violating QED

Damiano Anselmi and Martina Taiuti
Phys. Rev. D 81, 085042 – Published 28 April 2010

Abstract

We study a QED extension that is unitary, CPT invariant, and super-renormalizable, but violates Lorentz symmetry at high energies, and contains higher-dimension operators (LVQED). Divergent diagrams are only one- and two-loop. We compute the one-loop renormalizations at high and low energies and analyze the relation between them. It emerges that the powerlike divergences of the low-energy theory are multiplied by arbitrary constants, inherited by the high-energy theory, and therefore can be set to zero at no cost, bypassing the hierarchy problem.

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  • Received 13 January 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.085042

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Damiano Anselmi* and Martina Taiuti

  • Dipartimento di Fisica “Enrico Fermi,” Università di Pisa and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

  • *damiano.anselmi@df.unipi.it
  • martina.taiuti@df.unipi.it

See Also

Weighted power counting, neutrino masses, and Lorentz violating extensions of the standard model

Damiano Anselmi
Phys. Rev. D 79, 025017 (2009)

Renormalization of high-energy Lorentz-violating four-fermion models

Damiano Anselmi and Emilio Ciuffoli
Phys. Rev. D 81, 085043 (2010)

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Vol. 81, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2010

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