Universal Two-Loop Current--Current Renormalization of Four-Fermion Operators

Abstract

The complete one- and two-loop gauge and scalar current--current contributions to the running of arbitrary dimension-six four-fermion operators are reported. The results are obtained in a basis-independent and renormalization-scheme-agnostic fashion and are valid for arbitrary gauge groups. The complete gauge and scalar contributions, including the genuine one- and two-loop poles, counterterm insertions, wave-function renormalization, finite evanescent insertions, diagram multiplicities, and the associated color, charge and Yukawa factors are provided for the most general renormalizable Lagrangian with gauge and scalar interactions. The results enable the derivation of leading- and next-to-leading-order current--current anomalous-dimension matrices for arbitrary Effective Field Theories (EFTs) and constitute a significant step toward the complete two-loop renormalization of general EFTs.