Quantum Consistency and Renormalization of the Axis Model Effective Field Theory
Andrew Morton · Public preprint · Conditional effective field theory
Sets out the field content, renormalization and matching conditions of a specified Axis effective field theory.
Abstract
We formulate the Axis effective field theory (EFT) on a clock-admissible coherent branch while distinguishing originating Parent results, action-level source data, conditional ultraviolet constructions, and imported Standard-Model structure. The coherence scalar is neutral under the screened Parent symmetry U(1)_G; its compact phase supplies a temporal coframe and is not the Stueckelberg compensator of the screened vector. The independently normalized G_μ sector is distinct from electroweak hypercharge, and the neutral electroweak-plus-screened mass matrix has exactly one photon null direction. Five boundaries—loss of perturbative control, sector-projector definability, metric definability, reconstruction, and Parent matching/low-energy-basis termination—are therefore kept separate. Matching transports the unprojected response before projecting onto any admissible sector; projector geometry alone does not determine a gauge coupling. In a declared auxiliary vectorlike benchmark with a neutral coherence scalar and 42 charged Weyl modes, the corrected pure-Abelian one- and two-loop coefficients are b₁ = 28 and b₂ = 84; an optional current-form-factor witness with κ² = 1/3 yields b₁ = b₂ = 28/3. These statements are conditional EFT and benchmark results, not derivations of particle masses, flavor, α, weak mixing, strong coupling, or Newton’s constant.
Scope
The theory uses declared low-energy fields and Standard Model representations. Its consistency calculations and auxiliary benchmarks leave microscopic particle construction, physical gauge-source selection and the ultraviolet branch open.
Paper and supporting files
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