The Quantum-Corrected Fermion Mode Function during Inflation

Details The Quantum-Corrected Fermion Mode Function during Inflation The Quantum-Corrected Fermion Mode Function during Inflation

2007-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0705.0767v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Ph.D. thesis

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My project computed the one loop fermion self-energy for massless Dirac + Einstein in the presence of a locally de Sitter background. I employed dimensional regularization and obtain a fully renormalized result by absorbing all divergences with Bogliubov, Parasiuk, Hepp and Zimmermann (BPHZ) counterterms. An interesting technical aspect of my computation was the need for a noninvariant counterterm, owing to the breaking of de Sitter invariance by our gauge condition. I also solved the effective Dirac equation for massless fermions during inflation in the simplest gauge, including all one loop corrections from quantum gravity. At late times the result for a spatial plane wave behaves as if the classical solution were subjected to a time-dependent field strength renormalization of Z_2(t) = 1 - 17(4 pi) *G H^2 *ln(a) + O(G^2). I showed that this also follows from making the Hartree approximation, although the numerical coefficients differ.

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