One-loop Self-energies in the Electroweak Model with Nonlinearly Realized Gauge Group

Abstract

We evaluate at one loop the self-energies in generic D dimensions for the W,Z mesons in the Electroweak model where the gauge group is nonlinearly realized. In this model the Higgs boson parameters are absent, while a second mass parameter appears together with a scale for the radiative corrections. We estimate these parameters in a simplified fit on leptons and gauge bosons data. We check physical unitarity and the absence of infrared divergences. Landau gauge is used.

Comments: 29 pages, final version published by Phys. Rev. D, some typos corrected in eqs.(5), (18) and (19). The errors have a pure editing origin. Therefore they do not affect the content of the paper