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Parameters in the electroweak theory

II. Quadratic divergences

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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One of the major differences between electroweak theory and the better understood quantum electrodynamics is the appearance of quadratic divergences. We discuss this issue using point-splitting regularization. It is shown that these quadratic divergences vanish if a certain mass relation is satisfied. The relation is linear in the squares of all the masses of the theory.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Allégt. 55, N-5007, Bergen, Norway

    Per Osland

  2. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Tai Tsun Wu

  3. Gordon McKay Laboratory, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Tai Tsun Wu

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Work supported in part by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities

Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant DE-FG02-84ER40158

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Osland, P., Wu, T.T. Parameters in the electroweak theory. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 55, 585–591 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561295

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