On the renormalizability and unitarity of the Curci-Ferrari model for massive vector bosons

1995/10/23 by Jan de Boer, Kostas Skenderis, P. van Nieuwenhuizen +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01455-1

published as Phys.Lett. B367 (1996) 175-182 · 13 pages, LaTeX, with three figures (needs psfig)

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Abstract

We prove the renormalizability of the Curci-Ferrari model with and without auxiliary fields using BRST methods. In both cases we find 5 Z factors instead of 3. We verify our results by explicit one loop calculations. We determine a set of generators for the ``physical states'', many of which have negative norm. Supersymmetrization is considered.

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