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On the Evaluation of Vacuum Energy Density in Quantum Field Theory
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: Received: 25 January 2021 / Approved: 27 January 2021 / Online: 27 January 2021 (13:11:39 CET)
How to cite: Goldfain, E. On the Evaluation of Vacuum Energy Density in Quantum Field Theory. Preprints 2021, 2021010562. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202101.0562.v1 Goldfain, E. On the Evaluation of Vacuum Energy Density in Quantum Field Theory. Preprints 2021, 2021010562. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202101.0562.v1
Abstract
The textbook analysis of vacuum energy density (VED) in flat spacetime follows from Pauli’s lectures of 1951, in which quantum vacuum is modeled as a reservoir of free harmonic oscillators. In his lectures, Pauli shows that deriving a nearly vanishing VED is contingent upon fulfilling three corollary conditions called polynomial-in-mass-constraints. The goal of this work is to evaluate Pauli’s constraints against the Standard Model parameters and the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
Keywords
zero-point energy density; vacuum energy density; Standard Model parameters; mass spectrum; Renormalization Group flow; Higgs mechanism; cosmological constant problem
Subject
Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics
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