Renormalization group consistency and low-energy effective theories

Low-energy effective theories have been used very successfully to study the low-energy limit of QCD, providing us with results for a plethora of phenomena, ranging from bound-state formation to phase transitions in QCD. These theories are consistent quantum field theories by themselves and can be em...

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Hauptverfasser: Braun, Jens (VerfasserIn) , Leonhardt, Marc (VerfasserIn) , Pawlowski, Jan M. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal) Kapitel/Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 12 Jun 2018
In: Arxiv

Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04432
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Verfasserangaben:Jens Braun, Marc Leonhardt, and Jan M. Pawlowski
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Zusammenfassung:Low-energy effective theories have been used very successfully to study the low-energy limit of QCD, providing us with results for a plethora of phenomena, ranging from bound-state formation to phase transitions in QCD. These theories are consistent quantum field theories by themselves and can be embedded in QCD, but typically have a physical ultraviolet cutoff that restricts their range of validity. Here, we provide a discussion of the concept of renormalization group consistency, aiming at an analysis of cutoff effects and regularization-scheme dependences in general studies of low-energy effective theories. For illustration, our findings are applied to low-energy effective models of QCD in different approximations including the mean-field approximation. More specifically, we consider hot and dense as well as finite systems and demonstrate that violations of renormalization group consistency affect significantly the predictive power of the corresponding model calculations.
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