Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 67: 51-56
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1271-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

A nondiagrammatic calculation of the ρ parameter from heavy fermions

School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

^* e-mail: zhh98@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Received: 24 November 2009
Published online: 5 March 2010

Abstract

A simple nondiagrammatic evaluation of the nondecoupling effect of heavy fermions on the Veltman ρ parameter is presented in detail. This calculation is based on the path integral approach, the electroweak chiral Lagrangian formalism, and the Schwinger proper time method.