Perturbative Power Counting,Lowest-Index Operators and Their Renormalization in Standard Model Effective Field Theory

We study two aspects of higher dimensional operators in standard model effective field theory.We first introduce a perturbative power counting rule for the entries in the anomalous dimension matrix of operators with equal mass dimension.The power counting is determined by the number of loops and the difference of the indices of the two operators involved,which in turn is defined by assuming that all terms in the standard model Lagrangian have an equal perturbative power.Then we show that the operators with the lowest index are unique at each mass dimension d,i.e.,(H^(†)H)^(d/2)for even d≥4,and(L^(T)εH)C(L^(T)εH)^(T)(H^(†)H)^((d-5)/2)for odd d≥5.Here H,L are the Higgs and lepton doublet,andε,C the antisymmetric matrix of rank two and the charge conjugation matrix,respectively.The renormalization group running of these operators can be studied separately from other operators of equal mass dimension at the leading order in power counting.We compute their anomalous dimensions at one loop for general d and find that they are enhanced quadratically in d due to combinatorics.We also make connections with classification of operators in terms of their holomorphic and anti-holomorphic weights.

Enhancement of deltaful two-pion exchange nuclear forces

The role of the delta isobar degrees of freedom in nucleon–nucleon scattering is revisited.We attempt to understand why the dimensionally regularized two-pion exchanges with the explicit delta isobar is much stronger than the ones with spectral function regularization.When the cutoff value of spectral function regularization is varied,the isoscalar central component exhibits a rather large cut-off variation.This reveals a surprisingly large numerical factor of the deltaful two-pion exchange potentials.The power counting is adjusted accordingly and we discuss the results and how to improve upon this finding.