2019/10/17 by Er-Cheng Tsai, Tsai, Er-Cheng
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.08121
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It is conventionally taken for granted that the unitary gauge formulation of quantum gauge field theory has the advantage of preservation unitarity because only physical fields are involved but has the disadvantage of losing renormalizability because of severe ultraviolet divergences due to vector meson propagators. In this paper, we show how to handle the ultraviolet divergent loops so that the physical amplitudes remain gauge invariant. One of the consequences we arrive at is that ghost loops are needed to cancel the divergences due to vector mesons and to give gauge invariant physical amplitudes.