Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-02-22
Nucl.Phys.B462:315-332,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
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Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00674-5
We investigate the phase structure and the infrared properties of higher-derivative quantum gravity (QG) with matter, in $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions. The renormalization group (RG) equations in $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions are analysed for the following types of matter: the $f\varphi^4$-theory, the $O(N) \varphi^4$-theory, scalar electrodynamics, and the $SU(2)$ model with scalars. New fixed points for the scalar coupling appear ---one of which is IR stable--- being some of them induced by QG. The IR stable fixed point perturbed by QG leads to a second-order phase transition for the theory at non-zero temperature. The RG improved effective potential in the $SU(2)$ theory (which can be considered as the confining phase of the standard model) is calculated at nonzero temperature and it is shown that its shape is clearly influenced by QG.
Odintsov Elizalde S. E. D.
Romeo August
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