On the On-Shell Renormalization of Fermion Masses, Fields, and Mixing Matrices at 1-loop

Abstract

We propose a new and simple On-Shell definition of off-diagonal fermion field and mass counterterms at 1-loop in terms of self-energy scalar functions. Further, we show that the anti-hermitian part of the field renormalization is always finite and that mass counterterms can be chosen gauge-independent. It is noteworthy that our definition relies on mass structures, which is a novel approach, and does not require to drop absorptive parts as is usually the case. Definitions of the off-diagonal mass and field counterterms allow us to comment on the renormalization of mixing matrices with focus on the quark mixing matrix in the Standard Model. As an example of our scheme, we provide computations in the Two Higgs Doublet Model with an additional Heavy Majorana neutrino - the Grimus-Neufeld model. This allows for the comparison with other schemes known in literature and also provides examples for the case of massless fermions. The examples also serve as genuine results in this particular model as well as this scheme. In the appendix the scheme is extended to arbitrary orders, although without example computations in the Grimus-Neufeld model.