Pauli-Villars regularization
- Pauli-Villars regularization
In theoretical physics, Pauli-Villars regularization is a procedure that isolates divergent terms from finite parts in loop calculations in field theory in order to renormalize the theory. Wolfgang Pauli and Felix Villars published the method in 1949, based on earlier work by Richard Feynman, Ernst Stueckelberg and Dominique Rivier.[cite book|title=QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|date=1994] ]In this treatment, a divergence arising from a loop integral (such as vacuum polarization or electron self-energy) is modulated by a spectrum of auxiliary particles added to the Lagrangian or propagator. When the masses of the fictitious particles are taken as an infinite limit (i.e., once the regulator is removed) one expects to recover the original theory.
This regulator is gauge invariant due to the auxiliary particles being minimally coupled to the photon field through the gauge covariant derivative. It is not gauge covariant, though, so Pauli-Villars regularization cannot be used in QCD calculations. P-V serves as an alternative to the more favorable dimensional regularization in specific circumstances, such as in chiral phenomena, where a change of dimension alters the properties of the Dirac gamma matrices.
Notes
References
* Bjorken, J.D., Drell, S.D. "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York City, New York 1964.
* Collins, John. "Renormalization", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1984.
* Hatfield, Brian. "Quantum Field Theory of Point Particles and Strings", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Redwood, California, 1992.
* Itzykson, C., Zuber, J-B. "Quantum Field Theory", McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York City, New York, 1980.
* Pauli, W., Villars, F. "On the Invariant Regularization in Relativistic Quantum Theory", [http://link.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v21/p434 Rev. Mod. Phys, 21, 434-444 (1949)] .
See also
* Regularization (physics)
* Dimensional regularization
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