TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending the Universal One-Loop Effective Action
T2 - heavy-light coefficients
AU - Ellis, Sebastian A.R.
AU - Quevillon, Jeremie
AU - You, Tevong
AU - Zhang, Zhengkang
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - The Universal One-Loop Effective Action (UOLEA) is a general expression for the effective action obtained by evaluating in a model-independent way the one-loop expansion of a functional path integral. It can be used to match UV theories to their low-energy EFTs more efficiently by avoiding redundant steps in the application of functional methods, simplifying the process of obtaining Wilson coefficients of operators up to dimension six. In addition to loops involving only heavy fields, matching may require the inclusion of loops containing both heavy and light particles. Here we use the recently-developed covariant diagram technique to extend the UOLEA to include heavy-light terms which retain the same universal structure as the previously-derived heavy-only terms. As an example of its application, we integrate out a heavy singlet scalar with a linear coupling to a light doublet Higgs. The extension presented here is a first step towards completing the UOLEA to incorporate all possible structures encountered in a covariant derivative expansion of the one-loop path integral.
AB - The Universal One-Loop Effective Action (UOLEA) is a general expression for the effective action obtained by evaluating in a model-independent way the one-loop expansion of a functional path integral. It can be used to match UV theories to their low-energy EFTs more efficiently by avoiding redundant steps in the application of functional methods, simplifying the process of obtaining Wilson coefficients of operators up to dimension six. In addition to loops involving only heavy fields, matching may require the inclusion of loops containing both heavy and light particles. Here we use the recently-developed covariant diagram technique to extend the UOLEA to include heavy-light terms which retain the same universal structure as the previously-derived heavy-only terms. As an example of its application, we integrate out a heavy singlet scalar with a linear coupling to a light doublet Higgs. The extension presented here is a first step towards completing the UOLEA to incorporate all possible structures encountered in a covariant derivative expansion of the one-loop path integral.
KW - Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027975343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP08(2017)054
DO - 10.1007/JHEP08(2017)054
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027975343
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 8
M1 - 54
ER -