Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-08-11
Phys.Rev.D62:113012,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
26 pages, plain Latex, 7 Figures in a separate ps file
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.113012
Using the pinch technique we construct at one-loop order a neutrino charge radius, which is finite, depends neither on the gauge-fixing parameter nor on the gauge-fixing scheme employed, and is process-independent. This definition stems solely from an effective proper photon-neutrino one-loop vertex, with no reference to box or self-energy contributions. The role of the $WW$ box in this construction is critically examined. In particular it is shown that the exclusion of the effective WW box from the definition of the neutrino charge radius is not a matter of convention but is in fact dynamically realized when the target-fermions are right-handedly polarized. In this way we obtain a unique decomposition of effective self-energies, vertices, and boxes, which separately respect electroweak gauge invariance. We elaborate on the tree-level origin of the mechanism which enforces at one-loop level massive cancellations among the longitudinal momenta appearing in the Feynman diagrams, and in particular those associated with the non-abelian character of the theory. Various issues related to the known connection between the pinch technique and the Background Field Method are further clarified. Explicit closed expressions for the neutrino charge radius are reported.
Bernabeu Jose
Cabral-Rosetti Luis G.
Papavassiliou Joannis
Vidal Jordi
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