Amplitude of process via one W loop in unitary gauge
(I. Details of calculation with Dyson scheme)
Abstract
Decay amplitude of process via one W loop in the unitary gauge is presented. The divergent integrals including those of high divergence orders typical of unitary gauge are arranged to cancel to get the electromagnetic gauge invariant finite result, hence no contribution to the renormalization constant of -mixing in this 1-loop subprocess. For the calculation of the Feynman diagrams employing the Feynman rules, all the integrations of the propagator momenta and all the -functions representing the 4-momentum conservation of every vertex are retained in the beginning. Therefore, the ambiguity of setting independent loop momentum for divergences worse than logarithmic does not exist, and shift of integrated variable in such divergent integrals is eschewed. The calculation are done in 4-dimension Minkowski momentum space without the aid of any regularization. The correct treatment on the surface terms for the quadratic and logarithmic tensor integral is one of the key points.
This part I is devoted to the calculation details and the indications from the key surface terms. Comparing with other gauge(s) and complete results for are left for part II.
1 Introduction
The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam electroweak (EW) theory is a SU(2)U(1) Yang-Mills gauge field theory, with the gauge symmetry ’broken’ by a scalar field via the Englert-Brout-Higgs-Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble Mechanism and the scalar field coupling the fermion field in Yukawa style provides the mass term which distinguishes various SU(2)-doublet fermions. This theory has been confirmed from experiment in the sense that the massive particles v.s. the massless photon, and a ’remaining’ neutral scalar particle which is generally referred to as the Higgs or the ’God’ particle, all are well measured. In general, a realistic calculation of the S-matrix or scattering/decay amplitude employing the quantized field theory of the standard model need to fix a specific gauge and it is adopted that the physical result should be independent from the choice (artificial rather than by nature) of the gauge. However, recently, careful revisit on the decay width in the unitary gauge and the gauge Wu:2017rxt ; Wu:2016nqf ; Gastmans:2015vyh ; Gastmans:2011ks ; Gastmans:2011wh would like to imply some paradox. For a review and remarks on the uncertainties in this paradox, see e.g., Duch:2020was . In all ways this paradox calls for calculations in the unitary gauge for loop diagrams to be extensively studied. Many topics have been suggested Wu:2017rxt , and one of them is the process via one W loop. Though less experimentally significant Aad:2014fia ; Chatrchyan:2013vaa , it can also be an important example to investigate in the unitary gauge and the gauge to gain insights for the paradox.
It is well known that unitary gauge can be taken as a limit of the general gauge (but can be defined independently wein73 ) that does not commute with the loop integrations Wu:2017rxt , so that a lot of care has to be taken when applied to loop calculations. In the above mentioned gauge (non)invariance paradox, several uncertainties could arise from the (maybe) non-commutability of various limitations Duch:2020was . Besides, high divergence order integrals are one of the difficulties. Similar as process via W loop, process via one W loop in the unitary gauge also has many high divergence order integrals for each single diagrams and should properly cancel, or else one can not get the correct result, either not possible to make the comparison with results from other gauges. Terms proportional to , not encountered in process, cause new difficulties. The purpose of this paper is to apply the experiences obtained from the investigation on the process via one W loop Li:2017hnv , i.e., without the setting of independent integrated loop momentum in the beginning and eschewing the shift of integrated variable for high order divergences, to provide the systematic framework to give the finite and electromagnetic U(1) gauge invariant amplitude of the process via one W loop for further study.
For any diagram whose divergence order higher than logarithmic, to shift the integral momentum can lead to extra terms with lower divergence (or finite). In such case, the proper set of diagrams with correct inter-relations of the loop momenta must be treated together to get the correct result, as pointed by Gastmans:2011ks ; Gastmans:2011wh (in the following we refer to these two papers and works therein as GWW). Only a part of diagrams of the set shifting the momenta will change the result. This problem can be solved by the the original Dyson formulation, ’Dyson scheme’ as called in Li:2017hnv , without the ambiguity of setting independent loop momentum in the beginning, and shift of integrated variable in high divergence order integrals can be, and is, eschewed. Correspondingly, our cancellation of divergences are all at integral level rather than integrand level. However, a wise setting of independent integrated momentum as GWW or employing Dyson scheme Li:2017hnv is inadequate to definitely determine the final result in the unitary gauge because of the presence of the surface term for the reduction of the divergent tensor integral. In process, the same logarithmic divergent tensor integral appears as in Li:2017hnv ; but there is also the new quadratic ones, especially for terms proportional to , which will be investigated in this paper.
The considerations and key points of employing Dyson scheme are as following:
To think that a high divergence order ( logartithmic) integral from the Feynman diagram is changed when shifting the integrated momentum, one inevitably raises the question what is the ’original’ expression/value to be changed? There may not exist the ’original’ one for a single diagram, once considering that different Feynman diagrams are related and hence the loop momenta (à la GWW). However, one can have the definiteness starting from the original form derived from the perturbative expansion of the S-matrix according to the standard Dyson-Wick procedure Dyson:1949ha , which is integrations on space-time at each perturbative order. Once taking these space-time integrations 111leaving out the integrations on momenta from each propagators; this in fact exchanging order of integration, between the phase space and configuration space., we get functions, one for each vertex, relating all the momenta of the propagators with energy-momentum conservation Dyson:1949ha . If we start from such a form for each diagram, without integrating the propagator momenta and functions, there will be no indefiniteness, or ambiguity to set independent integral momentum. This corresponds to that the momentum space Feynman rules are slightly modified 222in fact ’recovered’, see the classical paper of Dyson Dyson:1949ha , especially its Eq. (20) and discussions before and after it. as: Any propagator with momentum has an extra ’operator’, i.e., should this integration on to be done in the calculation of the Feynman diagram; any vertex has an extra factor , with , each momentum of all the propagators attaching the vertex, incoming. In this paper we adopt this way to write the amplitude corresponding to each Feynman diagram for calculation. The method has been proved to be valid and feasible based on our investigation on the process via one W loop in the unitary gauge Li:2017hnv . Calculation in this way can also help us to eschew the shift of integrated variables in high order divergences. For the present case in unitary gauge this seems the only practical way. In Wu:2017rxt , to eliminate uncertainties, the authors suggested to calculate the difference between unitary gauge and gauge by first to calculate the difference of the integrand and then to do the loop integration. Since the difference of the integrand still leads to high order divergences, the choice of integrated momenta has also to be treated in the above suggested way to eliminated ambiguity. There is another advantage in applying the Dyson scheme when treating the surface term for the divergent tensor integral reduction. Since the integrated momentum is just the one in the originally-defined Feynman propagator, its natural physical boundary condition can be used to determine the surface term (to be zero).
In the following section 2, we illustrate the details of the calculations in the way mentioned above. The result is finite, invariant, without the need of the Dyson subtraction with the correct treatment on the logarithmic and quadratic surface terms. No regularization is introduced and all calculations are done in the 4-dimension Minkowski momentum space. During the calculation, only real convergence or real logarithmic divergence need not to eschew shift. As is also drawn attention by Li:2017hnv , especially for terms with odd power of momentum (fermion propagator is another example), it has long been noticed that the real divergence can be worse than simple power counting once all possible ways for momentum to infinity considered—this is just the condition when we do not beg for regularization.
The physical implication of the finite terms proportional to after all divergences from quadratic to logarithmic cancelled is very interesting as well. In case, the term not zero is explained because of the goldstone effects, which is equivalently exposed in unitary gauge by the corresponding terms in W propagator (and going to the final result once the surface term of logarithmic tensor reduction and cancellation is properly treated). In the case, the Z particle includes transverse as well as longitudinal components, which can expose more longitudinal (goldstone) effects from the W propagator. This is true because of the extra effects proportional to .
Besides the success of calculating these H decay channels, this way also shows power to discuss other important issues. For example, in Bao:2021byx we demonstrate that it is very easy to obtain both the vector current and axial vector current conservations at the same time via this Dyson scheme 333It has been long recognized, both current conservations can be obtained at the same time via setting ’the most symmetric loop momentum’ as in Wu:2017rxt ; Wu:2016nqf ; Gastmans:2015vyh ; Gastmans:2011ks ; Gastmans:2011wh . The author thanks Prof. T.T. Wu for informing this fact., contrary to the Bell-Jackiw claim. From such investigations, one also recognizes the important rôle of the infinite momentum surface integrals. So we make some discussions on the results, the Dyson scheme, the surface terms, and the physical implication on probing the structures and properties of space-time in section 3.
This part I is devoted to the calculation details to get the electromagnetic U(1) gauge invariant result and physical indication from this calculation procedure, especially the the divergence cancelation from the surface term. Comparing with other gauge(s) and complete results for are left for part II.
2 Calculation
2.1
There are totally 5 Feynman diagrams. Three are similar as those of the process, via the direct coupling of Higgs and W-boson loop. We will demonstrate the calculations in details. The other two are via the direct 3-point coupling of Higgs and ZZ, while one Z transiting to gamma via the W bubble (3-point vertices) and W tadpole (4-point vertex). However, these latter two diagrams sum to be zero Wu:2017rxt , and the details of the calculation will not be presented in this paper. In this calculation the same surface term of the quadratic tensor integral is encountered, which will be investigated in details for the former three diagrams in the following 444As a matter of fact, these diagrams are self-energy like diagrams, and by Lorentz and gauge invariant arguments should be proportional to ( the on shell photon index, some dummy index), so are zero. But just the same as the QED photon self-energy diagram, direct calculation is non-trivial. The superficial quadratic latter also need the correct quadratic surface term to get the ’proper’ form, which was regarded only available via a gauge invariant regularization. With the same argument, and also can be shown explicitly by the help of the same quadratic surface term, the fermion bubble of also zero since on shell, i.e., . The application to the fermion case in fact is even more useful since here we can freely work in 4 dimension Minkowski momentum space without the ambiguity of .. This zero result together with the finite result of the former three diagrams show in this 1-loop subprocess no contribution to the mixing renormalization constant.
Figure 1 showes the three diagrams to be calculated in the following, is the 4-momentum of . is the 4-momentum of the Z particle, , with the corresponding polarization vectors , , since Z is massive. We still have (see Eq. 87). There is also an extra factor for the WWZ vertex, where is the Weinberg angle.
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As convention, The S-matrix and T-matrix have the relation , and the matrix element between initial and final states for the space-time displacement invariant case. Here we keep all the momenta respectively corresponding to each propagator and hence all functions respectively corresponding to each vertex. The one corresponding to the initial-final state energy momentum conservation is contained in these functions. After integrating over them, one will get the above form of T-matrix element with the is the integration of the independent loop momenta only, without the functions attached to the vertices. This is the standard procedure in developing the Dyson-Wick perturbation theory in the interaction picture Dyson:1949ha . The four-momentum conservation function attached to each of the vertices is the result of integration of space-time variables in the perturbative expansion of the S-matrix, and is the manifestation of space-time displacement invariance 555This requires not only the boundary of space-time at infinity trivial but also no point or structure singular to ’block’ the displacement. We conjecture this may be the condition to exchange the integration order of configuration space and momentum space, see footnote 1. We also would like to point out ”no point or structure singular to ’block’ the displacement” guarantees the investigation on the surface term at infinity in momentum space Li:2017hnv .. In the following, we do not integrate out the functions of each vertex until have to and is allowed to integrate out some of the momenta with corresponding functions (only for ’hidden’ case, see the following). So here we deal with the matrix elements rather than :
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Here we do not explicitly write the matrix element subscript, and all the fuctions are understood as four-dimensional one, i.e., . As GWW, we also omit the polarization vector, so, e.g., should be understood as . In all this paper, we use M to represent the W mass. The relation between and , i.e., , and is clear to be read out.
To better illustrate the calculation procedure, we list the formulae we use repeatedly in Appendix A. They correspond to Eqs. (2.5-2.12) of GWW Gastmans:2011wh and can go to GWW (2.5-2.12) by simply taking since there all for photons. Similarly as the process, the property of 3-particle vertex, WW or WWZ, which is named as Ward Identity (W.I.) in GWW, is the key role in the evaluation, because the extra terms in W propagator product with the vertex is typical of the unitary gauge. There is more subtle elements in considering these W.I.’s, since they demonstrate the special relations of the various propagator momenta provided by the concrete dynamics in the standard mode. Furthermore, the equations (A9), (A10), and first and third terms of (A7), (A8) are independent of the integrated momentum choice (the term reduces with one from the denominator, so in fact corresponding to a term).
In the following, we investigate the terms according to their minus power of M. The factor will not explicitly written, and all terms should multiply with this factor to get the proper terms in the corresponding T amplitude of Eqs. (1-3). So when we mention a term, we do not take into account the overall M factor coming from the HWW coupling except explicitly addressed. Since there is still a WW vertex, i.e., of , of , respectively, the terms in and are again zero as the process, according to Eq. (95).
2.2
For the terms, in and , respectively, there are 3 ways of the combination of two of three () from the W propagators. One combination is zero because of the W.I. of the WW vertex, Eq. (95). Another gives a terms because of the W.I. of the WWZ vertex, Eq. (96). The third corresponds to those of the process, gives likely terms besides extra terms.
Those from :
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employing the corresponding W.I.’s of Appendix A. Obviously, if , which is consistent with the case.
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Now since , according to (93), . For this kind of step we employ the W.I. for WW (A7) in priority than WWZ vertex (A8) because it straightforwardly gives the proper minus power of M for each term.
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is obviously term and to be discussed with other terms later.
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Again to employ the corresponding W.I. of these two kinds of 3-particle vertices. In the last step of Eq. (9), we also take into account that, , to use the relation , to get
In fact, all the Ward identities for the 3-boson vertex we use here also have employed the energy momentum conservation at the vertex.
We write
so all the term from are now and , with the 4th and 3th order divergences only in (formally similar as those in ).
Now we come to , from external variables, its relation with is , and ; from internal momenta, it is and . For easy to investigate, we now deal with it separately, according to the same thread of . Similarly for the three ways of combination, , and
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For , we also have , with
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is obviously term and to be discussed with other terms later.
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We write
again all the term from are now and , with the 4th and 3th order divergences only in . and can be combined, since for both of them only appear in the functions and can be integrated out. Then the 4th and 3th order divergences cancel after summing with those of and only quadratic one proportional to left (zero for ).
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since , takeing now from the function. The term in is
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so :
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All the uncancelled terms of order, , , , are proportional to , so are zero when Z mass goes to zero. Since is a constant parameter in the dynamics, the result is not because of the in-proper choice of the integrated variables; as a matter of fact, all the above derivation is independent from any special choice of the integrated variable. In the integral , the does not appear (or only appearing in the functions and is integrated out). This case, which has appeared above, is called ’hidden’ in the following.
We have
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In the above equations, is used. In the last line of each of Eqs. (18,19, 20), we have decomposed them into various terms with various orders of divergences.
Before discussing the terms, we first collect the uncancelled finite terms appearing in above equations for further investigation. The ones directly read from the Eqs. (19) and (20) respectively are the fourth term in last line of each
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The denominators are not the same, since different kinematic configuration. Similar attention should be paid in the following. These two terms (21, 22) are latter in need to be combined to get the gauge invariant term. This very subtle fact is a signal of the self-consistency of the standard model.
The linear divergent terms in Eqs. (19) and (20) respectively are the third term in last line of each. The () reduces the corresponding factor in denominator, and then they are independent on . Integrating on in both and they can combine and give
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Again is used.
Further, dividing Eq. (23) by 2, each respectively recover a factor in the numerator and denominator, recover a third function and integration on corresponding to and . The term of numerator cancels the logarithmic divergence of fifth (last) term in last line respectively of Eqs. (19) and (20) (the remaining finite terms are in the following). The remaining terms are
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Similar cancellation as above is also done for first term of last line respectively of Eqs. (19) and (20) with the first term of last line of the equation of (the remaining finite terms are in the following), and the remaining terms from (coming from the factor for both numerator and denominator, recovering the integration) are
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In the above two logarithmic divergence cancellations, the nonzero finite terms are
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For the above six remaining non zero finite terms, contrary to (21, 22), it can be shown that Eqs. (24) to (27) are cancelled by those terms in and proportional to an extra factor. Those remaining in and all proportional to . This in fact only can be approved after the integration on Feynman-Schwinger parameters , by which extra terms other than the gauge invariant one integrated to be zero. The coefficient of is then
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The result is of the form
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which guarantee the non-zero terms in the unitary gauge.
This term is the most important part of the gauge invariant final result, in the sense crucial to comparing with the result from other gauges (e.g., gauge). For feasibility to collect for the whole result, we mark it as R1.
Now the terms including quadratically divergence to be considered are:
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But to get a clear and definite cancellation of the quadratic divergence, from the above three equations we still have to again take out the logarithmic divergent () terms to be considered in next sections (which is indeed necessary to cancel divergence there, that also guarantees this derivation):
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and
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So the quadratic divergence from Eq. (32) is
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after cancelling the similar factor in the numerator and denominator, and integrating the variable only appearing in the function.
For the quadratics in Eqs. (33) and (34), respectively, after cancelling the similar factor in the numerator and denominator, and integrating the variable only appearing in the function, they become,
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In the above derivations, we take many ’petty’ steps to extract various terms which is finite and definite or divergent only logarithmically, and at last arrive at the above three quadratic terms to sum and cancel. The reason is just that we eschew any shift of the integrated variable in the integral of high divergence order. The subtle need of them (except the above U(1) invariant term) to cancel divergence and to get U(1) invariant form is of course a nontrivial guarantee the derivation.
The above three terms sum to be zero, because of the quadratic surface term. Here we come to investigate: Similar as the relation of logarithmic tensor integral (here we only write the integrand)
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we have the quadratic one
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When we take the surface term to be integrated zero, we obtain the tensor reduction formula we need. Why the surface term can be zero considering the boundary condition at infinity inherent of the phase space free Feynman propagator Li:2017hnv , and the indication that this momentum space divergence as sensitive probe on local property of space time et vice verse, are to be investigated in the discussion section. This quadratic form is also appear in QED photon self energy. It is easy for the above formula to give the electromagnetic gauge invariant form (W.I.), proportional only to a log pole which only affect the residue of the photon propagator and is absorbed by the coupling constant renormalization Bao:2021byx .
By changing the dummy integrated variables according the relations set by the functions, Eq.(39) and Eq.(40) are
:
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:
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Effectively these two integrals equals to the following two integrals
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In the second line of each of the above two equations, a dummy function is integrated out. It is obviously that (38) + (46) + (48)=0 according to the above quadratic surface integral formula, so that (38) + (39) + (40)=0, i.e., .
:
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The above two terms equal to, again by the quadratic surface formula,
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The fact expressed in the function is that . So two terms explicitly written above cancel, leaving the surface related terms .
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(Here we neglect the integral symbol and the functions, and employ the fact .)
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Here we use . The surface term comes from the total derivative
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and is zero (integrated).
Again with , but ,
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The second line is now logarithmic, so we can employ Feynman-Schwinger parameterization to directly calculate it. It will lead to the factor and is zero, and then is solved to be zero. q.e.d.
Here we emphasize again this petty derivation just to show the importance of the surface term and the possibility to eschew any shift for high order divergence.
Now we see that the total result on the terms proportional to is finite, non-zero, and U(1) gauge invariant. And the terms left after all the above cancellation are to be shown necessary for the following cancellation.
From the above, we learn that the calculation in the way introduced in this paper, especially not to integrate the functions before have to and ia allowed to (once a variable only appearing in the delta function, it is a dummy and the integrand is independent from it), provides the exact definition of the Feynman diagram. One may suspect that for the most general case of the calculation of the Feynman diagrams, the proper way of setting the independent integrated variables at beginning as done by GWW Gastmans:2011ks , may not be available. So calculation without integration on the functions until have to is a more proper or maybe necessary way of the employment of the Feynman rules. As for the surface term, it is consistent with the naïve symmetric integration for convergent integral. The surface integral formula is also consistent with a D dimension regularization calculation (which is always considered as convergent), and share the similar spirit of the ’IBP’. But it is unclear All the above calculations done in D dimension can get the same result.
2.3
Besides the above listed terms in bracket, we need to investigate the following: From
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and both give term in numerator when applying the Ward identity directly, which could reduce the corresponding factor in denominator and combine with ,
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:
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is term;
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:
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is term.
This discussion also applies to , so the following is to investigate , and we use , so can use W.I. again, while the extra term will combine with the corresponding term from . We use , and the extra term is there. We found that the extra term from the W.I. and from just cancelled, so all the other similar as two photon case Li:2017hnv , i.e.,
Now the remaining terms are all from and , as well as the remained terms from the above subsection. As the case of the two photons, cancellation for the linear divergence will be taken by the summation of the corresponding terms from and respectively. Those directly from are
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which must be considered together with terms half of Eq. (35), then (21) and Eq. (36). It is easy to find that the terms without the factor are quite similar as two photon case, but extra terms from are subtle. They emerge from various equations, and cancel in various ways leading to the U(1) invariant final result, which is a manifest of the self-consistent of the standard model.
So we separate (68) as two parts: A, those explicitly without factor in the beginning; B, those with. Then we calculate A, to see which canceled, which giving extra terms to be canceled with extra terms from last section, or to be arranged with part B—together with all extra terms from last subsection, leading to the final U(1) invariant results.
We here again apply the W.I. and combine them together to obtain a simple form of part A:
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It looks as quadratic, but easy to see in fact to the most linear, quite similar as the two photon case, since
then equals to
and
However,
hence is also linear ( and can not combine since ).
Now we write as the summation of two parts:
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i.e., the linear and logarithmic divergent terms respectively. Then the above linear term, after further taking out logarithmic and finite terms from it, should combine with the corresponding term from , then is deduced to get as two terms, one is logarithmic divergent, the other is finite.
Some details are:
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First of all we address that the terms (some are not explicitly written in the above) are all finite terms and are to be calculated later. So it is the following linear term (with factor reduced with the common one in denominator, and written as , written as , then integrated)
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to be combined with that from :
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and summed with Eq. (35) (!) then deduces to logarithmic term. Half of their summation is then:
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This term can again be separated into a logarithmic term and a finite term,
Hence effectively , with
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( term to be combined into the final result), and U(1) invariant finite
But the term is the logarithmic terms with factor, summing the terms , Eq. (36) , and (21). The result is
The is in fact effectively discussed, and just make the above doubled. We see that all the above are finite and U(1) invariant ( is to be combined in the following), and all the remaining ones in last subsection has been cancelled and combined. This procedure is subtle, interesting and self-consistent (due to standard model). From this subsection we obtain U(1) EM gauge invariant terms proportional to , (the logarithmic cancelled so finite) as the two photon case, we mark as R2. We also obtain the extra finite U(1) EM invariant terms proportional to , and , we mark as R3, R4. These are also to be considered for the investigation of the gauge invariant w.r.t. gauge result.
2.4
Now the terms.
The third part of , i.e., , as well as those corresponding ones from , are terms and to be investigated here together with the corresponding terms from (Pay attention that lack of a overall minus sign) and the other remaining terms form and :
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and is not explicitly written here.
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These four terms (half of ) summed still give terms as logarithmic
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but all the divergences cancelled, and the total summation of the terms, half of , , , as well as , give the exactly similar form of Eq. (36) of Li:2017hnv ( process), i.e.,
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But pay attention since the denominator different because of , this is U(1) invariant just after some of the terms integrated to be zero. However, same as two photon case, the Dyson subtraction is not needed since the surface term formula for log divergence. We mark this term as R5.
In this paper we do not intend to produce the final results. Investigation on gauge invariance and combining fermion loops are to be done in the following paper. In this paper we just give the original form we obtained above, R1+R2+R3+R4+R5.
3 Discussion and speculation
In this paper we eliminate the paradoxes and ambiguities via the framework of the original Dyson scheme, each propagator momentum integration kept and each function at each vertex not integrated out: 1, the original loop momentum definite in the beginning to write down the amplitude in momentum space with Feynman rules; 2, any momentum shift for divergences worse than logarithmic eschewed; 3, no regularization or dimension extrapolation. Some speculation of new physics beyond the standard model can be based on some new symmetry which introduces some correspondence to the known standard model particles, and may simplify the renormalization dramatically via divergence cancellation, especially high order divergence cancelation. So to properly write down these divergences and then to properly cancel them become a very crucial point.
To proceed the concrete calculation, the evaluation on the surface terms Ferreira:2011cv for the loop momentum going to infinite is very important to eliminate any uncertainty. We refer to the physical boundary condition of the scattering S matrix static problem to determine the surface term to be zero Li:2017hnv which is taken as undetermined in Ferreira:2011cv . In this paper we encounter and determine the quadratic (42) and logarithmic (41) ones. Besides the , , the photon and photon-Z self-energy diagram Bao:2021byx , these also appear in other places, as for the axial anomaly. The Dyson scheme and the ’most symmetric loop momentum’ (see footnote 3) are both in contrary to the Bell-Jackiw claim. There, no necessity referring to the surface term, but we can see the surface term determined same as above via the physical boundary condition of the free propagator, give the consistency Bao:2021byx .
However, one must adopt that in the most general consideration which is not restricted in the physical boundary condition of the free propagator in Minkowski momentum space (the scattering S matrix static problem), whether the surface term equals to zero depending on the concrete condition of the infinite momentum surface, hence the space-time structure, geometry or topology, which is very crucial. For example, when the divergence of the chiral current is calculated via the concrete QFT defined on a specified space-time manifold, the value can be zero or not. This is in fact taken as an input to generate many interesting physics which have been widely studied, e.g., relation with the Atiyah-Singer index/Pontryagin class, ’t Hoot symmetry breaking, etc. What lesson we learn here is that for a concrete physical problem, the Atiyah-Singer index in no way must equal to nonzero integer, but must be determined by the proper calculation of the QFT defined on the manifold, as well as the physical condition, especially for special limits. As a classical original example, the Polyakov solution in Euclidean space-time Belavin:1975fg . Here we only want to point out that besides the index case which gives many interesting speculations so far, the case also exist and can be considered as special limit of the solution. One trivial case is the group element g in the paper independent from the space-time at the large sphere , i.e., becoming a global gauge. This is more consistent with confinement than pure gauge. Another case is when can be neglected, index q again can be calculated to be zero. This may show a triviality of the high energy behaviour with the axial current conservation, sharing similar spirit as the divergence cancellation in our present paper with Energy larger larger than 3-momentum on the infinite momentum surface.
So it is important to clarify the concrete condition for the divergence (un)cancellation, the surface term ( or 0). The concrete manifold of space-time can make zero nonzero, make finite nonfinite, can make a renormalizable field theory non renormalizable, or need more operators to close, etc. Besides others the anomaly is very important considering the ’t Hooft way to get charge non-conservation. This can explain the non-conservation of U(1) number and CP violation of early universe, and conservation restoration now, based the difference of the property of the space-time. In other words, divergence integral (or cancellation, or the concrete value of the surface term) in the calculation of the QFT in momentum space is a sensitive probe on the topology or some other local structure (holes…) of the space-time.
For the study of the cosmology, the above discussion on the (ultraviolet) divergence cancellation possibly depending on the concrete (local) structure of spacetime implies interesting speculation. The ’historical versions’ of QFT’s vary with the universe evolution. QFT’s can be defined on various spacetime math structure. In more details, different versions of QFT’s, defined on different manifolds or more general math structures corresponding to our universe—spacetime—at various special periods can be self -consistent or -inconsistent. But in whatsoever cases, the divergences may cancel to get finite (including zero) prediction or may not and can not give clear prediction, it can always probe the math structure of the spacetime of the universe. The ultraviolet probes the local, the infrared probes the global, or just manifests the special information of the space time which leads to the inconsistency between the spacetime and QFT. In the more concrete cases addressed above in the paper, the spacetime in early universe manifold may have singularity, defect, bubble wall or other structure to cause the anomaly to give the CP violation and U(1) charge nonconservation for baryogenesis but these structures of the spacetime manifold now evolute/expand so that locally become Minkowski and no anomaly, no violations but only conservation of the corresponding currents, which is consistent with experiments and has to ask for cancellation in some theoretical framework without elimination inherently. At the same time these early defects or structures can also play the role of ’seed’ of the curvature of spacetime (primordial curvature perturbation) via the homogeneous Einstein equations, i.e., this curvature is not caused by ’matter’ (inhomogeneous term in Einstein equations) but is now observed as ’dark matter’ when the universe evolute to today.
Acknowledgments
The authors greatly thank Prof. Tai Tsun Wu for stimulating the topic related with the gauge paradox, for encouragement and many instructive discussions.
This work is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. 12275157, 11775130, 11635009).
Appendix A Mathematics for corresponding to Eqs. (2.5-2.12) of GWW Gastmans:2011wh
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