A STUDY OF SCHWINGER-DYSON EQUATIONS FOR YUKAWA AND WESS-ZUMINO MODELS

We study Schwinger-Dyson equations for fermions in Yukawa and Wess-Zumino models, in terms of dynamical mass generation and the wavefunction renormalization function. In the Yukawa model with 5-type interaction between scalars and fermions, we find a critical coupling in the quenched approximation above which fermions acquire dynamical mass. This is shown to be true beyond the bare 3-point vertex approximation. In the Wess-Zumino model (Wess J and Zumino B 1974 Nucl. Phys. B 70 39; Wess J and Zumino B 1974 Phys. Lett. B 49 52), there is a neat cancellation of terms leading to no dynamical mass for fermions. We comment on the conditions under which these results are general beyond the rainbow approximation and also on the ones under which supersymmetry is preserved and the scalars do not also acquire mass. The results are in accordance with the non-renormalization theorem at least to order in perturbation theory. In both the models, we also evaluate the wavefunction renormalization function, analytically in the neighbourhood of the critical coupling and numerically, away from it.