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Renormalization-group flows and fixed points in Yukawa theories

Esben Mølgaard1,2 and Robert Shrock2

  • 1The Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology CP3-Origins, and the Danish Institute for Advanced Study DIAS, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
  • 2C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 105007 – Published 8 May, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.105007

Abstract

We study renormalization-group flows in Yukawa theories with massless fermions, including determination of fixed points and curves that separate regions of different flow behavior. We assess the reliability of perturbative calculations for various values of Yukawa coupling y and quartic scalar coupling λ by comparing the properties of flows obtained with the beta functions of these couplings calculated to different orders in the loop expansion. The results provide a determination of the region in y and λ where calculations up to two loops can yield reasonably reliable results. In the regime of weak couplings where the perturbative calculations are most reliable, we find that the theories have no nontrivial fixed points, and the flow is toward a free theory in the infrared.

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Phys. Rev. D 89, 105007– Published 8 May, 2014
  • Received 12 March 2014

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