Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-08-07
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Ph.D. thesis - University of Durham (1995), LaTeX, 222 pages
Scientific paper
We investigate the dynamical generation of fermion mass in quantum electrodynamics (QED). This non-perturbative study is performed using a truncated set of Schwinger-Dyson equations for the fermion and the photon propagator. First, we study dynamical fermion mass generation in quenched QED with the Curtis-Pennington vertex, which satisfies the Ward-Takahashi identity and ensures the multiplicative renormalizability of the fermion propagator. We apply bifurcation analysis to determine the critical point for a general covariant gauge. In the second part of this work we investigate the dynamical generation of fermion mass in full, unquenched QED. We develop a numerical method to solve the system of three coupled non-linear equations for the dynamical fermion mass, the fermion wavefunction renormalization and the photon renormalization function. Much care is taken to ensure the high accuracy of the solutions. We also discuss in detail the proper numerical cancellation of the quadratic divergence in the vacuum polarization integral and the need to use smooth approximations to the solutions.
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