New Physics and the Landau Pole

Abstract

In scalar field theories the Landau pole is an ultraviolet singularity in the running coupling constant that indicates a mass scale at which the theory breaks down and new physics must intervene. However, new physics at the pole will in general affect the running of the low energy coupling constant, which will in turn affect the location of the pole and the related upper limit (``triviality'' bound) on the low energy coupling constant. If the new physics is strongly coupled to the scalar fields these effects can be significant even though they are power suppressed. We explore the possible range of such effects by deriving the one loop renormalization group equations for an effective scalar field theory with a dimension 6 operator representing the low energy effects of the new physics. As an independent check we also consider a renormalizable model of the high-scale physics constructed so that its low energy limit coincides with the effective theory.

26 pages, 5 figures

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