Relativistic particle actions are a useful tool to describe quantum field theory effective actions using a string-inspired first-quantized approach. Here we describe how to employ suitable particle actions in the computation of the scalar contribution to the one-loop gluon effective action. We use the well-known method of introducing auxiliary variables that create the color degrees of freedom. In a path integral they implement automatically the path ordering needed to ensure gauge invariance. It is known that the color degrees of freedom introduced this way form a reducible representation of the gauge group. We describe a method of projecting onto the fundamental representation (or any other chosen irrep, if desired) of the gauge group. Previously, we have discussed the case of anticommuting auxiliary variables. Choosing them to be in the fundamental representation allows to obtain, without any extra effort, also the situation in which the color is given by any antisymmetric tensor product of the fundamental. Here, we describe the novel case of bosonic auxiliary variables. They can be used equivalently for creating the color charges in the fundamental representation. In addition one gets, as a byproduct, the cases where the particle can have the color sitting in any symmetric tensor product of the fundamental. This is obtained by tuning to a different value a Chern Simons coupling, present in the model, which controls how the projection is achieved.

A worldline approach to colored particles / Bastianelli F.; Bonezzi R.; Corradini O.; Latini E.; Ould-Lahoucine K.H.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - ELETTRONICO. - 1208:1(2019), pp. 012004.1-012004.11. (Intervento presentato al convegno Victor Villanueva Memorial Workshop tenutosi a Institute of Physics and Mathematics, University of Michoacan, mex nel 2013) [10.1088/1742-6596/1208/1/012004].

A worldline approach to colored particles

Bastianelli F.;Bonezzi R.;Latini E.;
2019

Abstract

Relativistic particle actions are a useful tool to describe quantum field theory effective actions using a string-inspired first-quantized approach. Here we describe how to employ suitable particle actions in the computation of the scalar contribution to the one-loop gluon effective action. We use the well-known method of introducing auxiliary variables that create the color degrees of freedom. In a path integral they implement automatically the path ordering needed to ensure gauge invariance. It is known that the color degrees of freedom introduced this way form a reducible representation of the gauge group. We describe a method of projecting onto the fundamental representation (or any other chosen irrep, if desired) of the gauge group. Previously, we have discussed the case of anticommuting auxiliary variables. Choosing them to be in the fundamental representation allows to obtain, without any extra effort, also the situation in which the color is given by any antisymmetric tensor product of the fundamental. Here, we describe the novel case of bosonic auxiliary variables. They can be used equivalently for creating the color charges in the fundamental representation. In addition one gets, as a byproduct, the cases where the particle can have the color sitting in any symmetric tensor product of the fundamental. This is obtained by tuning to a different value a Chern Simons coupling, present in the model, which controls how the projection is achieved.
2019
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
1
11
A worldline approach to colored particles / Bastianelli F.; Bonezzi R.; Corradini O.; Latini E.; Ould-Lahoucine K.H.. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - ELETTRONICO. - 1208:1(2019), pp. 012004.1-012004.11. (Intervento presentato al convegno Victor Villanueva Memorial Workshop tenutosi a Institute of Physics and Mathematics, University of Michoacan, mex nel 2013) [10.1088/1742-6596/1208/1/012004].
Bastianelli F.; Bonezzi R.; Corradini O.; Latini E.; Ould-Lahoucine K.H.
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