Um dos problemas mais importantes que precisa ser resolvido, tanto pela física de partículas como pela cosmologia, é a existência de assimetria bariônica. Entre os cenários mais atrativos para a geração dinâmica da assimetria bariônica (Bariogênese) encontra- se a denominada Leptogênese. Nesse cenário, cria-se uma assimetria leptônica que será convertida em assimetria bariônica por processos não perturbativos mediados por sphalerons. Na realização mais simples da Leptogênese, que será estudada nesta dissertação, neutrinos pesados de mão direita, produzidos termicamente, decaem violando CP, gerando um assimetria leptônica nesses decaimentos. O principal atrativo deste cenário é que conecta duas escalas aparentemente diferentes: a escala da geração de assimetria leptônica e a escala das massas e oscilações dos neutrinos ativos mediante o mecanismo de See-Saw. O estudo usual da Leptogênese utiliza equações de Boltzmann para determinar a evolução temporal da assimetria. Porém, a equação de Boltzmann é uma equação semiclássica, dado que envolve, por um lado, uma função clássica no espaço de fases, a função de distribuição, mas, por outro, os termos de colisão envolvem quantidades obtidas na teoria quântica de campos à temperatura nula. Em particular, a formulação de Boltzmann não permite descrever fenômenos quânticos como oscilações coerentes e efeitos de decoêrencia e interferência. Uma descrição quântica completa da evolução da assimetria leptônica na leptogênese deve, de fato, ser obtida no contexto da teoria quântica de campos fora do equilíbrio térmico. O formalismo de Schwinger-Keldysh permite realizar isso. Nesta dissertação descreveremos a leptogênese no formalismo de Schwinger-Keldysh para o caso em que são adicionados ao espectro de partículas do Modelo Padrão três neutrinos de mão direita, sem fazer qualquer suposição sobre a hierarquia de massas. / One of the most important problems that is needed to solve by the Elementary Particle Physics as well as by the Cosmology is the existence of baryonic asymmetry. Among the most attractive scenarios of dynamic generation of baryonic asymmetry (Baryogenesis) is the so-called Leptogenesis. In that scenario, a leptonic asymmetry is treated in such a way that it will be converted in baryonic asymmetry by non-perturbative processes mediated by sphalerons. In the simplest realization of Leptogenesis, that will be studied in this disertation, heavy right-handed neutrinos, produzed thermally, decay violating CP generating a leptonic asymmetry in these decays. The principal attractive of this scenario is that it connects two apparently different scales, the scale of leptonic asymmetry generation and the scale of masses and oscillations of the active neutrinos through the See-Saw mechanism. The usual study of the leptogenesis uses Boltzmann equations in order to determine the temporal evolution of the asymmetry. However, the Boltzmann equation is a semiclassical equations, since, on one side, it is formulated for a classical function in phases space, the distribution function, but, on the other hand, the collision term involves quantities obtained in the Quantum Field Theory at zero temperature. In particular, Boltzmann formulation does not allow to describe quantum phenomena such coherent oscillations and effects of decoherence and interference. Indeed, a proper quantum description of the evolution of the leptonic asymmetry must be obtained in the context of the Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory. The Schwinger-Keldysh formalism allows to perform this. In this dissertation, leptogenesis is described using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism for the case in which there are three right-handed neutrinos without a definite mass hierarchy.

Nesta tese estudamos o modelo CP^(N-1) em (2+1) dimensões do espaco-tempo, onde o campo básico está na representacão fundamental. Diferentemente do caso em que o campo básico está na representacão adjunta, já estudado na literatura, o modelo por nós estudado se reduz ao modelo supersimétrico usual no limite comutativo. Analisamos a estrutura de fase e calculamos as correcões dominantes e subdominantes na expansão 1/N. Provamos que a teoria é livre de singularidades infravermelhas não integráveis e é renormalizável na ordem dominante. A funcão de vértice de dois pontos do campo básico é calculada e renormalizada de uma forma explicitamente supersimétrica na ordem subdominante. / In this thesis we sutudy the noncommutative supersymmetric CP^(N-1) model in (2+1) space-time dimensions, where the basic field is in the fundamental representation which, differently to the adjoint representation already studied in the literature, goes to the usual supersymmetric model in the commutative limit. We analyse the phase structure of the model and calculate the leading and subleading corrections in the 1/N expansion. We prove that the theory is free of non-integrable IR/UV infrared singularities and is renormalizable in the leading order. The two point vertex function of the basic field is also calculated and renormalized in an expliciitly supersymmetic way up to subleading order.

O Modelo Padrão (MP) da física de partículas fornece uma descrição extremamente bem sucedida de todos os dados experimentais atuais. No entanto, temos razões para esperar que ele não seja válido até escalas de energia arbitrariamente altas. No MP a massa do bóson de Higgs é quadraticamente sensível a correções radiativas, sofrendo de grandes problemas de ajuste fino. Isso gera o chamado problema da hierarquia de gauge, cuja solução natural requer nova física na escala TeV. O MP também não fornece nenhuma explicação para a grande hierarquia de massas e ângulos de mistura dos férmions. Os problemas de hierarquia podem ser resolvidos naturalmente em teorias com uma dimensão extra curva. No entanto, a sua versão mais simples viola sabor a nível árvore, em conflito com os dados. Nesta tese investigaremos modelos quadridimensionais que descrevem a física na escala TeV obtidos da discretização de teorias em cinco dimensões no espaço AdS5, segundo o procedimento de desconstrução dimensional. As hierarquias de gauge e das massas dos férmions são geradas naturalmente como no modelo extra-dimensional, satisfazendo ainda os vínculos de sabor e de precisão eletrofraca. Estudaremos também um modelo desconstruído em que o Higgs é um pseudo bóson de Nambu-Goldstone, a fim de obter um Higgs naturalmente leve e dinamicamente localizado / The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides an extremely successful description of all current experimental data. However, we have reasons to expect that it cannot be valid up to arbitrarily high energy scales. In the SM the Higgs boson mass is quadratically sensitive to radiative corrections and, hence, suffers from a severe fine-tunning problem. This creates the so-called gauge hierarchy problem, the natural solution of which requires new physics at the TeV scale. The SM also doesnt provide any explanation for the large hierarchy of fermion masses and mixing angles. The hierarchy problems can be naturally solved in theories with a warped extra dimension. However, their simplest version violates flavor at tree level, conflicting with experimental data. In this thesis we investigate four dimensional models that describe physics at the TeV scale obtained from a coarse discretization of five dimensional theories in AdS5 space, by the dimensional deconstruction procedure. The gauge as well as the fermion mass hierarchies are naturally generated in the same manner as in the extra-dimensional model, while also satisfying bonds from flavor physics and precision electroweak data. We also study a deconstructed model in which the Higgs is a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson, with the motivation of obtaining a naturally light and localized Higgs.

In dieser Arbeit wird eine systematische Methode gegeben um die Amplituden in (skalarer) Quantenelektrodynamik und nicht-Abelsche Eichtheorien in Schwinger-parametrische Form zu schreiben. Dies wird erreicht in dem der Zähler der Feynmanregeln im Impulsraum in einem Differentialoperator umgewandelt wird. Dieser Differentialoperator wirkt dann auf den parametrichen Integranden der skalaren Theorie. Für die QED ist das am einfachsten, weil die Leibnizregel hier nicht nötig ist. Im Fall der sQED und den nicht-Abelsche Eichtheorien stehen die Beiträge der Leibnizregel in Verbindung mit 4-valente Vertices. Eine andere Eigenschaft dieser Methode ist, dass mit dem hier benutzten Renormierungsschema die Subtraktionen für 1-scale Graphen signifikante Vereinfachungen verursachen. Weiterhin wurden die Ward-Identitäte für die genannten drei Theorien studiert. / In this thesis a systematic method is given for writing the amplitudes in (scalar) quantum electrodynamics and non-Abelian gauge theories in Schwinger parametric form. This is done by turning the numerator of the Feynman rules in momentum space into a differential operator. It acts then on the parametric integrand of the scalar theory. For QED it is the most straightforward, because the Leibniz rule is not involved here. In the case of sQED and non-Abelian gauge theories, the contributions from the Leibniz rule are satisfyingly related to 4-valent vertices. Another feature of this method is that in the used renormalization scheme, the subtractions for 1-scale graphs cause significant simplifications. Furthermore, the Ward identities for mentioned three theories are studied.

Bei dem Gross-Neveu Modell handelt es sich um eine in zwei Raumzeit-Dimensionen formulierte Quantenfeldtheorie, die einige Gemeinsamkeiten mit der Quantenchromodynamik aufweist. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird zunächst ein Überblick über das Kontinuumsmodell sowie über diskretisierte Versionen gegeben. Ein Renormierungsschema wird eingeführt und getestet. Berechnungen im Grenzwert unendlich vieler Fermionfamilien und in Störungstheorie werden durchgeführt. In ausgiebigen Monte-Carlo Simulationen der Modelle mit einer und vier Fermionfamilien wird eine Reihe universeller Größen mit hoher Genauigkeit ermittelt. Simuliert wird eine Gitterversion des Modells mit Wilson-Fermionen. Für das Modell mit nur einer Fermionfamilie, welches zum masselosen Thirring-Modell äquivalent ist, werden die kontinuumsextrapolierten Ergebnisse mit einer exakten Lösung dieses Modells konfrontiert. / The Gross-Neveu model is a quantum field theory in two space time dimensions that shares many features with quantum chromo dynamics. In this thesis the continuum model and its discretized versions are reviewed and a finite volume renormalization scheme is introduced and tested. Calculations in the limit of infinitely many fermion flavors as well as perturbative computations are carried out. In extensive Monte-Carlo simulations of the one flavor and the four flavor lattice models with Wilson fermions a set of universal finite volume observables is calculated to a high precision. In the one flavor model which is equivalent to the massless Thirring model the continuum extrapolated Monte-Carlo results are confronted with an exact solution of the model.

Inhalt dieser Arbeit ist eine Erweiterung der Hopfalgebrastruktur der Feynmangraphen und Renormierung von Connes und Kreimer. Zusätzlich wird eine Struktur auf faktoriell wachsenden Potenzreihen eingeführt, die deren asymptotisches Wachstum beschreibt und die kompatibel mit der Hopfalgebrastruktur ist. Die Hopfalgebrastruktur auf Graphen erlaubt die explizite Enumeration von Graphen mit Einschränkungen in Bezug auf die erlaubten Untergraphen. Im Fall der Feynmangraphen wird zusätzlich eine algebraische Verbandstruktur eingeführt, die weitere eindeutige Eigenschaften von physikalischen Quantenfeldtheorien aufdeckt. Der Differenzialring der faktoriell divergenten Potenzreihen erlaubt es asymptotische Resultate von implizit definierten Potenzreihen mit verschwindendem Konvergenzradius zu extrahieren. In Kombination ergeben beide Strukturen eine algebraische Formulierung großer Graphen mit Einschränkungen für die erlaubten Untergraphen. Diese Strukturen sind motiviert von null-dimensionaler Quantenfeldtheorie and werden zur Analyse ebendieser benutzt. Als reine Anwendung der Hopfalgebrastruktur wird eine hopfalgebraische Formulierung der Legendretransformation in Quantenfeldtheorien formuliert. Der Differenzialring der faktoriell divergenten Potenzreihen wird dazu benutzt zwei asymptotische Enumerationsprobleme zu lösen: Die asymptotische Anzahl der verbundenen Chorddiagramme und die asymptotische Anzahl der simplen Permutationen. Für beide asymptotischen Lösungen werden vollständige asymptotische Entwicklungen in Form von geschlossenen Erzeugendenfunktionen berechnet. Kombiniert werden beide Strukturen zur Anwendung an null-dimensionaler Quantenfeldtheorie. Zahlreiche Größen werden in den null-dimensionalen Varianten von phi^3, phi^4, QED, quenched QED and Yukawatheorie mit ihren kompletten asymptotischen Entwicklungen berechnet. / This thesis provides an extension of the work of Dirk Kreimer and Alain Connes on the Hopf algebra structure of Feynman graphs and renormalization to general graphs. Additionally, an algebraic structure of the asymptotics of formal power series with factorial growth, which is compatible with the Hopf algebraic structure, will be introduced. The Hopf algebraic structure on graphs permits the explicit enumeration of graphs with constraints for the allowed subgraphs. In the case of Feynman diagrams a lattice structure, which will be introduced, exposes additional unique properties for physical quantum field theories. The differential ring of factorially divergent power series allows the extraction of asymptotic results of implicitly defined power series with vanishing radius of convergence. Together both structures provide an algebraic formulation of large graphs with constraints on the allowed subgraphs. These structures are motivated by and used to analyze renormalized zero-dimensional quantum field theory at high orders in perturbation theory. As a pure application of the Hopf algebra structure, an Hopf algebraic interpretation of the Legendre transformation in quantum field theory is given. The differential ring of factorially divergent power series will be used to solve two asymptotic counting problems in combinatorics: The asymptotic number of connected chord diagrams and the number of simple permutations. For both asymptotic solutions, all order asymptotic expansions are provided as generating functions in closed form. Both structures are combined in an application to zero-dimensional quantum field theory. Various quantities are explicitly given asymptotically in the zero-dimensional version of phi^3, phi^4, QED, quenched QED and Yukawa theory with their all order asymptotic expansions.

Dyson-Schwinger-Gleichungen sind Fixpunktgleichungen, die in der Quantenfeldtheorie auftauchen. Obwohl es bekannt ist, wie die Kombinatorik vor der Anwendung von Feynman-Regeln aussieht, war die Kombinatorik der resultierenden analytischen Dyson-Schwinger-Gleichungen bisher unbekannt. Wir verallgemeinern die Arbeiten von Yeats et.al. auf diesem Gebiet zu einer Klasse von unendlich vielen Dyson-Schwinger-Gleichungen mit Hilfe von Sehnen-Diagrammen. / In quantum field theory, Dyson-Schwinger equations are fixed-point equations that come from self insertion properties of Feynman graphs. While the combinatorics of these are well understood, the combinatorics are still mysterious after applying the Feynman rules. We generalize the work of Yeats et.al. in this field to an infinite number of Dyson-Schwinger equations with the help of chord diagrams.

Wir betrachten eine Reihe von Trivialitäts- resultaten und No-Go-Theoremen aus der Axiomatischen Quantenfeldtheorie. Von besonderem Interesse ist Haags Theorem. Im Wesentlichen sagt es aus, dass der unitäre Intertwiner des Wechselwirkungsbildes nicht existiert oder trivial ist. Als wichtigste Voraussetzung von Haags Theorem arbeiten wir die unitäre Äquivalenz heraus und unterziehen die kanonische Störungstheorie skalarer Felder einer Kritik um zu argumentieren, dass die kanonisch renormierte Quantenfeldtheorie Haags Theorem umgeht, da sie genau diese Bedingung nicht erfüllt. Der Hopfalgebraische Zugang zur perturbativen Quantenfeldtheorie bietet die Möglichkeit, Dyson-Schwinger-und Renormierungsgruppengleichungen mathematisch sauber herzuleiten, wenn auch mit rein kombinatorischem Ausgangspunkt. Wir präsentieren eine Beschreibung dieser Methode und diskutieren eine gewöhnliche Differentialgleichung für die anomale Dimension des Photons. Eine Spielzeugmodellversion dieser Gleichung lässt sich exakt lösen; ihre Lösung weist eine interessante nichtstörunsgtheoretische Eigenschaft auf, deren Auswirkungen auf die laufende Kopplung und die Selbstenergie des Photons wir untersuchen. Solche nichtperturbativen Beiträge mögen die Existenz eines Landau-Pols ausschliessen, ein Sachverhalt, den wir ebenfalls diskutieren. Unter der Arbeitshypothese, dass die anomale Dimension eines Quantenfeldes in die Klasse der resurgenten Funktionen fällt, studieren wir, welche Bedingungen die Dyson-Schwinger-und Renormierungsgruppengleichungen an ihre Transreihe stellen. Wir stellen fest, dass diese unter bestimmten Bedingungen kodieren, wie der perturbative Sektor den nichtperturbativen vollständig determiniert. / We review a package of triviality results and no-go theorems in axiomatic quantum field theory. Of particular interest is Haag''s theorem. It essentially says that the unitary intertwiner of the interaction picture does not exist unless it is trivial. We single out unitary equivalence as the most salient provision of Haag''s theorem and critique canonical perturbation theory for scalar fields to argue that canonically renormalised quantum field theory bypasses Haag''s theorem by violating this very assumption. The Hopf-algebraic approach to perturbative quantum field theory allows us to derive Dyson-Schwinger equations and the Callan-Symanzik equation in a mathematically sound way, albeit starting with a purely combinatorial setting. We present a pedagogical account of this method and discuss an ordinary differential equation for the anomalous dimension of the photon. A toy model version of this equation can be solved exactly; its solution exhibits an interesting nonperturbative feature whose effect on the running coupling and the self-energy of the photon we investigate. Such nonperturbative contributions may exclude the existence of a Landau pole, an issue that we also discuss. On the working hypothesis that the anomalous dimension of a quantum field falls into the class of resurgent functions, we study what conditions Dyson-Schwinger and renormalisation group equations impose on its resurgent transseries. We find that under certain conditions, they encode how the perturbative sector determines the nonperturbative one completely.

Um dos problemas mais importantes que precisa ser resolvido, tanto pela física de partículas como pela cosmologia, é a existência de assimetria bariônica. Entre os cenários mais atrativos para a geração dinâmica da assimetria bariônica (Bariogênese) encontra- se a denominada Leptogênese. Nesse cenário, cria-se uma assimetria leptônica que será convertida em assimetria bariônica por processos não perturbativos mediados por sphalerons. Na realização mais simples da Leptogênese, que será estudada nesta dissertação, neutrinos pesados de mão direita, produzidos termicamente, decaem violando CP, gerando um assimetria leptônica nesses decaimentos. O principal atrativo deste cenário é que conecta duas escalas aparentemente diferentes: a escala da geração de assimetria leptônica e a escala das massas e oscilações dos neutrinos ativos mediante o mecanismo de See-Saw. O estudo usual da Leptogênese utiliza equações de Boltzmann para determinar a evolução temporal da assimetria. Porém, a equação de Boltzmann é uma equação semiclássica, dado que envolve, por um lado, uma função clássica no espaço de fases, a função de distribuição, mas, por outro, os termos de colisão envolvem quantidades obtidas na teoria quântica de campos à temperatura nula. Em particular, a formulação de Boltzmann não permite descrever fenômenos quânticos como oscilações coerentes e efeitos de decoêrencia e interferência. Uma descrição quântica completa da evolução da assimetria leptônica na leptogênese deve, de fato, ser obtida no contexto da teoria quântica de campos fora do equilíbrio térmico. O formalismo de Schwinger-Keldysh permite realizar isso. Nesta dissertação descreveremos a leptogênese no formalismo de Schwinger-Keldysh para o caso em que são adicionados ao espectro de partículas do Modelo Padrão três neutrinos de mão direita, sem fazer qualquer suposição sobre a hierarquia de massas. / One of the most important problems that is needed to solve by the Elementary Particle Physics as well as by the Cosmology is the existence of baryonic asymmetry. Among the most attractive scenarios of dynamic generation of baryonic asymmetry (Baryogenesis) is the so-called Leptogenesis. In that scenario, a leptonic asymmetry is treated in such a way that it will be converted in baryonic asymmetry by non-perturbative processes mediated by sphalerons. In the simplest realization of Leptogenesis, that will be studied in this disertation, heavy right-handed neutrinos, produzed thermally, decay violating CP generating a leptonic asymmetry in these decays. The principal attractive of this scenario is that it connects two apparently different scales, the scale of leptonic asymmetry generation and the scale of masses and oscillations of the active neutrinos through the See-Saw mechanism. The usual study of the leptogenesis uses Boltzmann equations in order to determine the temporal evolution of the asymmetry. However, the Boltzmann equation is a semiclassical equations, since, on one side, it is formulated for a classical function in phases space, the distribution function, but, on the other hand, the collision term involves quantities obtained in the Quantum Field Theory at zero temperature. In particular, Boltzmann formulation does not allow to describe quantum phenomena such coherent oscillations and effects of decoherence and interference. Indeed, a proper quantum description of the evolution of the leptonic asymmetry must be obtained in the context of the Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory. The Schwinger-Keldysh formalism allows to perform this. In this dissertation, leptogenesis is described using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism for the case in which there are three right-handed neutrinos without a definite mass hierarchy.

Nesta tese de doutorado é utilizado o método das Regras de Soma da QCD para estudar a natureza dos novos estados ressonantes do charmonium: Y(3930), Y(4140), X(4350), Y(4260), Y(4360) e Y(4660). Há fortes evidências de que estes estados possuam estruturas hadrônicas não convencionais (ou exóticas) uma vez que as suas respectivas massas e canais de decaimento observados experimentalmente são inconsistentes com o que é esperado para o estado ressonante convencional do charmonium, J/psi. O mesmo fenômeno ocorre no setor do bottomonium, onde os novos estados Yb(10890) e Yb(11020) observados recentemente poderiam indicar a existência de novos estados exóticos do bottomonium. Neste sentido, verifica-se que o estado Y(4140) poderia ser descrito ou por uma estrutura molecular Ds*Ds* (0++) ou mesmo uma mistura entre estados moleculares Ds*Ds* (0++) e D*D* (0++). Já os estados Y(3930) e o X(4350) não podem ser descritos por correntes moleculares D*D* (0++) e Ds*Ds* (1-+), respectivamente. Verifica-se também que a estrutura molecular Psi(2S) f_0(980) (1--) descreve muito bem a massa do estado Y(4660). Uma extensão ao setor do bottomonium indica que o estado molecular Y(2S) f_0(980) é um bom candidato para descrever a estrutura do estado Yb(10890). É feita também uma estimativa para os possíveis estados moleculares formados por mésons D(*) e B(*), que poderão ser observados em futuros experimentos realizados pelo LHC. Um amplo estudo, utilizando o formalismo das Regras de Soma e também da Dupla Razão das Regras de Soma, é feito para calcular as massas dos bárions pesados na QCD. As estimativas para as massas dos bárions com um (Qqq) e com dois (QQq) quarks pesados são um excelente teste para a capacidade do método das regras de soma em prever a massa dos bárions que ainda não foram observados. / In this thesis, the QCD sum rules approach was used to study the nature of the new charmonium resonances: Y(3930), Y(4140), X(4350), Y(4260), Y(4360) and Y(4660). There is a strong evidence that these states have non-conventional (or exotic) hadronic structures since their respective masses and decay channels observed experimentally are inconsistent with what expected for a conventional charmonium state, J/psi. The same phenomenon occurs on the bottomonium sector, where new states like Yb(10890) and Yb(11020) observed recently could indicate the existence of new bottomonium exotic states. In this way, one verifies that the state Y(4140) could be described as a Ds*Ds* (0++) molecular state or even as a mixture of Ds*Ds* (0++) and D*D* (0++) molecular states. For the Y(3930) and X(4350) states, both cannot be described as a D*D* (0++) and Ds*Ds* (1-+), respectively. From a sum rule point of view, the Y(4660) state could be described as a Psi(2s) f_0(980) (1--) molecular state. The extension to the bottomonium sector is done in a straightforward way to demonstrate that the Y(2S) f_0(980) molecular state is a good candidate for describing the structure of the Yb(10890) state. In the following, one estimates the mass of the exotic Bc-like molecular states using QCD Sum Rules - these exotic states would correspond to bound states of D(*) and B(*) mesons. All of these mass predictions could (or not) be checked in a near future experiments at LHC. A large study using the Double Ratio of Sum Rules approach has been evaluated for the study of the heavy baryon masses in QCD. The obtained results for the unobserved heavy baryons, with one (Qqq) and two (QQq) heavy quarks will be an excellent test for the capability of the sum rule approach in predicting their masses.