Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-04-28
Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 3874-3887
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages (Latex) plus 5 embedded figures; minor corrections, one reference added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.3874
The problem of defining a gauge invariant effective potential with a strict energetic interpretation is examined in the context of spontaneously broken gauge theories. It is shown that such a potential can be defined in terms of a composite gauge invariant order parameter in physical gauges. This effective potential is computed through one loop order in a model with scalars and fermions coupled to an abelian gauge theory, which serves as a simple model of the situation in electroweak theory, where vacuum stability arguments based on the scalar effective potential have been used to place lower bounds on the Higgs mass.
Duncan Alan
Loinaz Will
Willey Raymond S.
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