https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1633-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Regularization independent analysis of the origin of two loop contributions to N=1 Super Yang–Mills beta function
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Physics Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, ICEx, P.O. Box 702, 30161-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Faculty of Science and Technology, Physics Department, Center of Computational Physics, Coimbra University, Rua Larga, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
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Departamento de Polícia Federal, Setor Técnico-Científico, Rua Hugo D’Antola, 95, Lapa, São Paulo, Brazil
* e-mail: helvecio@fisica.ufmg.br
Received:
3
December
2010
Revised:
11
February
2011
Published online:
1
May
2011
We present both an ultraviolet and an infrared regularization independent analysis in a symmetry preserving framework for the N=1 Super Yang–Mills beta function to two loop order. We show explicitly that off-shell infrared divergences as well as the overall two loop ultraviolet divergence cancel out, whilst the beta function receives contributions of infrared modes.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2011