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Physics Letters B

Volume 133, Issue 6, 29 December 1983, Pages 393-397
Physics Letters B

Two-loop calculation of the effective potential for the Wess-Zumino model

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Abstract

The effective potential for the supersymmetric Wess-Zumino model is computed off-shell to two loops. A renormalization procedure which preserves positivity of the kinetic terms in the effective action is implemented. Supersymmetry is not broken to this order.

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