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Unitarity and the Vainshtein mechanism

Kaloper, Nemanja; Padilla, Antonio; Saffin, Paul M.; Stefanyszyn, David

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Authors

Nemanja Kaloper

PAUL SAFFIN PAUL.SAFFIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Physics

David Stefanyszyn



Abstract

We investigate low energy limits of massive gauge theories that feature the Vainshtein mechanism, focussing on the effects of the UV modes that are integrated out. It turns out that the Goldstone sectors are significantly influenced by the effects from such modes relative to the effective field theories where the irrelevant operators induced by heavy modes are simply cast aside. The effects of the consistently retained higher order corrections affect the strong coupling and show that the nature of the UV completion influences the low energy theory significantly. This casts doubts on the naively estimated environmental strong coupling scale, and on the effectiveness of the environmental enhancement of screening. The environmental effects by themselves might not suffice to cure the bad behavior of the theory beyond the vacuum cutoff.

Citation

Kaloper, N., Padilla, A., Saffin, P. M., & Stefanyszyn, D. (2015). Unitarity and the Vainshtein mechanism. Physical Review D, 91(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.045017

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 1, 2015
Publication Date Feb 13, 2015
Deposit Date Apr 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review D
Print ISSN 2470-0010
Electronic ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 91
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.045017
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/745027
Publisher URL https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.045017

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