UV ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE QED AS A BROKEN YM THEORY IN THE UNITARY GAUGE. G. Bimonte, R. Iengo, G. Lozano. Physics Letters B355: 277-282,1995 Editorial: North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISSN:0370-2693 18 FINITE FERMION DENSITY EFFECTS ON THE ELECTROWEAK STRING. G.

BIMONTE GIUSSEPE; R IENG0; GUSTAVO S LOZANO

PHYSICS LETTERS B

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 1995 vol. B p. 277 - 282

0370-2693

We compute the β-function of a YM theory, broken to U(1), by evaluating the coupling constant renormalization in the broken phase. We perform the calculation in the unitary gauge where only physical particles appear and the theory looks like a version of QED containing massive charged spin 1 particles. We consider an on-shell scattering process and after verifying that the non-renormalizable divergences which appear in the Green?s functions cancel in the expression of the amplitude, we show that the coupling constant renormalization is entirely due to the photon self-energy as in QED. However we get the expected asymptotic freedom and the physical charge decreases logarithmically as a function of the symmetry breaking scale.