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Supersymmetric QED at finite temperature and the principle of equivalence

R. W. Robinett

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

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Phys. Rev. D 31, 336 – Published 15 January, 1985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.31.336

Abstract

Unbroken supersymmetric QED is examined at finite temperature and it is shown that the scalar and spinor members of a chiral superfield acquire different temperature-dependent inertial masses. By considering the renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor it is also shown that the T-dependent scalar-spinor gravitational masses are also no longer degenerate and, moreover, are different from their T-dependent inertial mass shifts implying a violation of the equivalence principle. The temperature-dependent corrections to the spinor (g-2) are also calculated and found not to vanish.

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Phys. Rev. D 31, 336– Published 15 January, 1985
  • Received 17 September 1984

© 1985 American Physical Society

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