Yukawa Scalar Self-Mass on a Conformally Flat Background

Details Yukawa Scalar Self-Mass on a Conformally Flat Background Yukawa Scalar Self-Mass on a Conformally Flat Background

2005-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0505156v1

Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 024023

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

23 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, 3 figures (uses axodraw)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.024023

We compute the one loop self-mass-squared of a massless, minimally coupled scalar which is Yukawa-coupled to a massless Dirac fermion in a general conformally flat background. Dimensional regularization is employed and a fully renormalized result is obtained. For the special case of a locally de Sitter background our result is manifestly de Sitter invariant. By solving the effective field equations we show that the scalar mode functions acquire no significant one loop corrections. In particular, the phenomenon of super-adiabatic amplification is not affected. One consequence is that the scalar-catalyzed production of fermions during inflation should not be reduced by changes in the scalar sector before it has time to go to completion.

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