Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-07-14
Nucl.Phys.B758:112-143,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
26 pages, 20 eps-files combined to 8 figures, minor typos corrected. Version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.09.021
We study classically unstable string type configurations and compute the renormalized vacuum polarization energies that arise from fermion fluctuations in a 2+1 dimensional analog of the standard model. We then search for a minimum of the total energy (classical plus vacuum polarization energies) by varying the profile functions that characterize the string. We find that typical string configurations bind numerous fermions and that populating these levels is beneficial to further decrease the total energy. Ultimately our goal is to explore the stabilization of string type configurations in the standard model through quantum effects. We compute the vacuum polarization energy within the phase shift formalism which identifies terms in the Born series for scattering data and Feynman diagrams. This approach allows us to implement standard renormalization conditions of perturbation theory and thus yields the unambiguous result for this non--perturbative contribution to the total energy.
Graham Noah
Quandt Markus
Schroeder Oliver
Weigel Herbert
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