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Regularization dependence of the Higgs mass triviality bound
We calculate the triviality bound on the Higgs mass in scalar field theory
models whose global symmetry group has been replaced by and has been taken to infinity.
Limits on observable cutoff effects at four percent in several regularized
models with tunable couplings in the bare action yield triviality bounds
displaying a large degree of universality. Extrapolating from to
we conservatively estimate that a Higgs particle with mass up to
and width up to is realizable without large cutoff
effects, indicating that strong scalar self interactions in the standard model
are not ruled out. We also present preliminary numerical results of the
physical case for the lattice that are in agreement with the large
expectations. Note: The full ps file is also available via anonymous ftp to
ftp.scri.fsu.edu. To get the ps file, ftp to this address and use for username
"anonymous" and for password your name. The file is in the directory pub/vranas
(to go to that directory type: cd pub/vranas) and is called lat92_proc.ps (to
get it type: get lat92_proc.ps)Comment: 5 pages with 5 ps figures included. LaTex file. Contribution to the
LAT92 proceedings. Preprint, FSU-SCRI-92-150, RU-92-4
Remark on lattice BRST invariance
A recently claimed resolution to the lattice Gribov problem in the context of
chiral lattice gauge theories is examined. Unfortunately, I find that the old
problem remains.Comment: 4 pages, plain TeX, presentation improved (see acknowledgments
Large analysis of the Higgs mass triviality bound
We calculate the triviality bound on the Higgs mass in scalar field theory
models whose global symmetry group has been replaced by and has been taken to infinity.
Limits on observable cutoff effects at four percent in several regularized
models with tunable couplings in the bare action yield triviality bounds
displaying a large degree of universality. Extrapolating from to
we conservatively estimate that a Higgs particle with mass up to
and width up to is realizable without large cutoff
effects, indicating that strong scalar self interactions in the standard model
are not ruled out.
Note: The full ps file of this preprint is also available via anonymous ftp
to ftp.scri.fsu.edu. To get the ps file, ftp to this address and use for
username "anonymous" and for password your name. The file is in the directory
pub/vranas (to go to that directory type: cd pub/vranas) and is called
lrg_n_hig.ps (to get it type: get lrg_n_hig.ps)Comment: 76 pages with 8 ps figures included. Tex fil
Bounds on the Wilson Dirac Operator
New exact upper and lower bounds are derived on the spectrum of the square of
the hermitian Wilson Dirac operator. It is hoped that the derivations and the
results will be of help in the search for ways to reduce the cost of
simulations using the overlap Dirac operator. The bounds also apply to the
Wilson Dirac operator in odd dimensions and are therefore relevant to domain
wall fermions as well.Comment: 16 pages, TeX, 3 eps figures, small corrections and improvement
How Bad Are Twins? Output Costs of Currency and Banking Crises.
We investigate the output effects of severe banking and currency crises in emerging markets, focusing on whether "twin crises" (simultaneous occurrence of currency and banking crises) exist as a unique phenomenon and whether they entail especially large losses. Recent literature, mostly relating to the East Asian crisis, emphasizes the interplay and reinforcement between currency and banking crises, presumably making twin crises particularly damaging to the real economy. Using a panel data set over the 1975-97 period and covering 24 emerging-market economies, we find that twin crises do not contribute any additional (marginal) negative impact on output growth. That is, twin crises do not adversely impact output over and above the independent effects associated with a currency and banking crisis taken together. We find that currency (banking) crises are very damaging, reducing output by about 5-8 (8-10) percent over a two-four year period. The cumulative output loss of both types of crises occurring at the same time is therefore very large, around 13-18 percent, and should alarm policymakers. However, twin crises are "bad" only in that they entail output losses associated with both currency and banking crises, not because there are additional feedback or interactive effects further damaging the economy. This result is robust to alternative model specifications, lag structures and using IV and GMM estimation procedures that correct bias associated with simultaneity and estimation or dynamic panel models with country-specific effects.
Lattice Gauge Fixing, Gribov Copies and BRST Symmetry
We show that a modification of the BRST lattice quantization allows to
circumvent an old paradox, formulated by Neuberger, related to lattice Gribov
copies and non-perturbative BRST invariance. In the continuum limit the usual
BRST formulation is recovered.Comment: 7 pages, LaTe
The triviality bound on the Higgs mass; its value and what it means
Older lattice work exploring the Higgs mass triviality bound is briefly
reviewed. It indicates that a strongly interacting scalar sector in the minimal
standard model cannot exist; on the other hand low energy QCD phenomenology
might be interpreted as an indication that it could. We attack this puzzle
using the expansion and discover a simple criterion for selecting a
lattice action that is more likely to produce a heavy Higgs particle. Depending
on the precise form of the limitation put on the cutoff effects, our large
calculations, when combined with old numerical data, suggest that the Higgs
mass bound might be around 750 , which is higher than the
previously obtained. Preliminary numerical work indicates that an increase of
at least 19\% takes place at on the lattice when the old simple
action is replaced with a new action (still containing only nearest neighbor
interactions) if one uses the lattice spacing as the physical cutoff for both
actions. It appears that, while a QCD like theory could produce , a meaningful ``minimal elementary Higgs'' theory cannot have M_H/ F~
\gtapprox 3. Still, even at 750 , the Higgs particle is so wide (GeV), that one cannot argue any more that the scalar sector is weakly
coupled.Comment: 8 pages. Latex file with 4 ps figures included. Preprint RU-92-22,
SCRI-92-11
Noncompact chiral U(1) gauge theories on the lattice
A new, adiabatic phase choice is adopted for the overlap in the case of an
infinite volume, noncompact abelian chiral gauge theory. This gauge choice
obeys the same symmetries as the Brillouin-Wigner (BW) phase choice, and, in
addition, produces a Wess-Zumino functional that is linear in the gauge
variables on the lattice. As a result, there are no gauge violations on the
trivial orbit in all theories, consistent and covariant anomalies are simply
related and Berry's curvature now appears as a Schwinger term. The adiabatic
phase choice can be further improved to produce a perfect phase choice, with a
lattice Wess-Zumino functional that is just as simple as the one in continuum.
When perturbative anomalies cancel, gauge invariance in the fermionic sector is
fully restored. The lattice effective action describing an anomalous abelian
gauge theory has an explicit form, close to one analyzed in the past in a
perturbative continuum framework.Comment: 35 pages, one figure, plain TeX; minor typos corrected; to appear in
PR
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