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Is Higgs Inflation Dead?
Jessica L. Cook,' Lawrence M. Krauss,1•2• 4 Andrew J. Long,l•I and Subir SabhanvalI
'Department of Physics and School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University. Tempe. AZ 85827-1404
2Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory.
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2611
(Dated: March 19, 2014)
We consider the status of Higgs Inflation in light of the recently announced detection of B-modes in the polar-
ization of the cosmic microwave background radiation by the BICEP2 collaboration. In order for the primordial
B-mode signal to be observable by BICEP2, the energy scale of inflation must be high. lint x 2 x 1016 GeV.
Higgs Inflation generally predicts a small amplitude of tensor perturbations. and therefore it is natural to ask
if Higgs Inflation might accommodate this new measurement. We find the answer is essentially no, unless one
considers either extreme fine tuning. or possibly adding new beyond the standard model fields, which remove
some of the more attractive features of the original idea. We also explore the possible importance of a factor that
has not previously been explicitly incorporated, namely the gauge dependence of the effective potential used in
calculating inflationary observables. e.g. its and r. to see if this might provide additional wiggle room. Such
gauge effects are comparable to effects of Higgs mass uncertainties and other observables already considered in
the analysis. and therefore they are relevant for constraining models. But, they are therefore too small to remove
the apparent incompatibility between the BICEP2 observation and the predictions of Higgs Inflation.
I. INTRODUCTION Higgs Inflation (HI) postulates that the Standard Model
Higgs field and the inflaton are one in the same [7]. (See also
The theory of inflation [1-31 successfully addressed the Ref. [8] for a recent review). This powerful assumption allows
twentieth century's greatest puzzles of theoretical cosmology. HI to be, in principle much more predictive than many other
Over the past 20 years, increasingly precise measurements of models of inflation, as by measuring the masses of the Higgs
the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave back- boson and the top quark at the electroweak scale (100 GeV),
ground radiation (CMB) also confirmed the nearly scale in- one might predict observables at much larger energy scales
variant power spectrum of scalar perturbations, a relatively associated with inflation (Vinlif4 ≤ 1016 GeV).
generic inflationary prediction. These many successes, how- However, in practice this enhanced predictive power is elu-
ever, underscored the inability to probe perhaps the most ro- sive due to a strong sensitivity to quantum effects, unknown
bust and unambiguous prediction of inflation, the generation physics, and other technical subtleties in the model. Specifi-
of a background of gravity waves associated with what are cally, one connects observables at the electroweak and infla-
likely enormous energy densities concomitant with inflation tionary scales using the renormalization group flow (RG) of
(e.g., [41). the SM couplings [9-141. It is reasonable however to expect
Recently, the BICEP2 collaboration reported evidence of that there is new physics at intermediate scales, and even if the
B-modes in the polarization pattern of the CMB [5]. The B. SM is extended only minimally to include a dark matter can-
modes result from primordial gravity wave induced distortions didate [15] or neutrino masses [16-19] this new physics can
at the surface of last scattering. If one assumes that these grav- qualitatively affect the connection between electroweak and
ity waves are of an inflationary origin, then the BICEP2 mea- inflationary observables. Moreover, perturbative unitarily ar-
surement corresponds to an energy scale of inflation: guments require new physics just above the scale of inflation
[20, 21], and in addition the unknown coefficients of dimen-
vinl/4
r.e.. (2 ± 0.2) x 1016 GeV (I) sion six operators can significantly limit the predictive power
of HI [22]. The HI calculation also runs into various techni-
for a reported tensor-to-scalar ratio of 7' la 0.2113:g (using cal subtleties that arise from the requisite non-minimal grav-
also the Planck collaboration's measurement of the amplitude itational coupling (see below) and quantization in a curved
of the scalar power spectrum [6]). Such a high scale of in- spacetime [23-25]. Finally, it is worth noting that HI is also at
flation rules out many compelling models. For the purposes tension with the measured Higgs boson and top quark masses,
of this paper, we will assume that the observation r 0.2 and an O(2e) heavier Higgs or lighter top is required to evade
is valid', and we assess the impact of this measurement on a vacuum stability problems [261.
particular model of inflation, known as Higgs Inflation. Also, as we shall later discuss in detail, there is one addi-
tional source of ambiguity in calculations of HI that had not
been fully explored. Since the quantum corrections are sig-
nificant when connecting the low energy and high energy ob-
'Electronic address: servables, one should not work with the classical (tree-level)
I Electronic address:
I Note that the BICEP2 measurement is in tension with the upper bound. scalar potential, as is done in may models of inflation, but
r < 0.11 at 95% C.L.. obtained previously by the Planck collaboration one must calculate the quantum effective potential. It is well-
161. known that in a gauge theory the effective potential explicitly
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depends upon the choice of gauge in which the calculation is non-minimal coupling to be much larger than unity. Specifi-
performed [27, 28], and care must be taken to extract gauge- cally one requires (see, e.g., Ref. [8])
invariant observables from it [29-32] (see also [33, 34]). This
fact can perhaps be understood most directly by recalling 47000vtX (5)
that the effective action is the generating functional for one-
particle irreducible Green's functions, which themselves are which is 17000 for A P.-- 0.13. The energy scale of infla-
gauge dependent [28]. In practice one often neglects this sub- tion is then predicted to be
tlety, fixes the gauge at the start of the calculation, and cal-
culates observables with the effective potential as if it were a 7-: (0.79 x 1016 GeV)4
Ito '4 (6)
classical potential. In the context of finite temperature phase
transitions, it is known that when calculated naively in this leading to a tensor-to-scalar ratio, assume scalar density per-
way, the predictions for observables depend on the choice of turbations fixed by CMB observations. r 0.0036. This is
gauge used [34-40]. Because of the extreme tension between naively incompatible with the much larger BICEP2 measure-
HI models and the data, we assess here the degree to which ment, see Eq. (1). Decrease is in HI to attempt to match the
this gauge uncertainty might affect the observables in Higgs newly measured value of Vint is not workable either, as set-
Inflation. We find that the gauge ambiguity introduces uncer- ting tr; 2000 then produces too little power in scalar density
tainties that are comparable to the variation of the physical perturbations.
parameters. i.e. the Higgs mass. As a result, this ambiguity Fundamentally then, the problem in obtaining a large value
alone cannot resuscitate moribund models. of r in Higgs inflationary models is that the HI potential
asymptotes to a constant at large field values where inflation
occurs. This flat potential then results in relatively large den-
2. GRAVITY WAVES FROM HIGGS INFLATION sity perturbations, which, in order to then match observations,
constrain the magnitude of the potential, resulting in a small
The Standard Model Higgs potential, V(h) = Ah4 /4 with tensor contribution.
A = O(0.1), is too steeply sloped for successful inflation. The question then becomes whether variations in this
The measurement of the Higgs boson mass fixes A 0.13, canonical HI, due to quantum effects for example, will allow
whereas A C 1 is required to produce the observed ampli- the SM Higgs boson to the be inflaton field while also accom-
tude of density perturbations. In the HI model, slow roll is modating the large value of r.
achieved by introducing a non-minimal gravitational coupling
for the Higgs field, G = -4 $t4, R, where 4> is the Higgs dou-
blet and R the Ricci scalar. One can remove the non-minimal 3. SAVING HIGGS INFLATION?
coupling term from the Lagrangian by performing a confor-
mal transformation, 9,,,(x) = r1-2(x)§0,(x) where Since it is the non-minimal coupling, 4, that flattens out the
potential at high scales, one might consider whether there are
122 = 1 + 2e4)t./All, (2) other ways to flatten the potential, and so avoid the require-
ment for large e values.
is the conformal factor and Alp is the reduced Planck mass.
One possibility proposed in this regard [13] involves fine
By doing so, one passes from the Jordan to the Einstein frame.
tuning the Higgs and top masses such that the Higgs self-
The scalar potential in the new frame becomes
coupling runs very small at the scale of inflation, A •-•-• 10-4.
Am This allows for relatively small 90 and produces r ≥ 0.15
V (h) (3) that may be compatible with the BICEP measurement. It is
4 (1 + )2 impossible to entirely eliminate the need for the non-minimal
coupling. However, as a caveat let us point out that this so-
where we have written et = h2/ 2. At large field values, lution only exists if the theory is first quantized in the Jordan
h > Mp/ vT, the potential asymptotes to a constant frame and then moved to the Einstein frame (so-called "pre-
scription I"), and results differ if the operations are reversed
Vo AMA/4e2 . (4) ("prescription II"). The apparent disagreement is an artifact
of quantizing all the fields except gravity, which results in a
This is the appropriate regime for slow roll inflation. different definition of the Ricci scalar in the two frames. A
To evince the tension between Higgs Inflation and large ten- full theory of quantum gravity would probably be required to
sor perturbations we can first neglect quantum corrections to resolve the problem consistently between frames. Thus, it is
V (h), e.g. the running of A, as the energy scale of HI, given not clear if the small e "prescription r solution is artificial.
by Eq. (4), is insensitive to the quantum corrections, whereas If one goes outside of the Standard Model, then new physics
the slope is more sensitive. can affect the running of the Higgs self-coupling or anomalous
Since A is fixed by the measured Higgs mass, the scalar dimension, 7. For example, one may hope that A or y acquires
potential in Eq. (3) has only one free parameter: e. It is well- a significant running at high scales so as to give a workable
known that to achieve sufficient e-foldings of inflation and the solution consistent with both the measured scalar and tensor
correct amplitude for the scalar power spectrum, one needs the power spectra. (See, e.g., [411).
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As a result, it appears that canonical HI with a non-minimal The Coleman-Weinberg effective action l'aff and effective
gravitational coupling as the only new physical input appears potential Vet( [49] have become standard tools in the study
extremely difficult to reconcile with the new observation of a of vacuum structure, phase transitions, and inflation. The
large tensor contribution from inflation. If would appear to effective action is the generating functional of one-particle
be necessary to add new physics to eliminate the dependence irreducible Green's functions, and therefore it is important
on non-minimal coupling entirely and to give the Higgs ef- to recognize that both l'aff and Vet( are off-shell quantities,
fective potential a shape compatible with observations. Such which will carry spurious gauge dependence [28]. When ap-
extension of HI tend to defeat the original purpose of the idea, plying the effective potential to a problem, special care must
namely its predictivity, and in any case most such modifica- be taken to extract gauge-invariant information. In particu-
tions that have been proposed [42-44] tend to retain the now lar, the Nielsen identities express the gauge invariance of the
undesirable feature of small r in any case. effective potential at its stationary points, but derivatives of
There are two options that might allow large r consistent the effective potential are not generally gauge invariant [31].
with BICEP. One possibility involves tuning the Higgs poten- This suggests that inflationary observables, e.g. Its, r, and
tial to form a second local minimum at large scales, i.e., a false dns'din k, naively extracted directly from the slow roll pa-
vacuum similar to old inflation [45]. To avoid the problems rameters will acquire a spurious gauge dependence.
of old inflation, a time dependent tunneling rate is introduced. Ideally one would like to determine the "correct" proce-
While most mechanisms to achieve this, however, produce a dure for calculating physical quantities like its from a given
small value of r [46], larger can be accommodated by adding model in such a way that the spurious gauge dependence is
a new scalar with a non-minimal coupling to gravity, such that canceled. There have been significant efforts made in this di-
the Higgs field sees a time dependent Planck mass [47]. A rection [23, 24], but a full gauge invariant formalism is yet
second possibility uses a non-canonical Galileon type kinetic to be developed. Here we will take a different approach that
term for the Higgs field. This model yields an r 0.14 [48]. is more aligned with recent work on the gauge dependence
These tuned limits, variants, and extensions of the original of phase transition calculations [34, 38, 39]. Specifically,
HI model leave the door slightly open for the possibility of we numerically perform the "naive" HI calculation using the
connecting the Higgs with the inflation field. However, with- RE gauge effective potential and RG-improvement to assess
out additional scalars or modification of the Higgs potential the sensitivity of the inflationary observables to the spurious
via some other mechanism beyond the Standard Model, the gauge dependence.
original scenario, i.e. Higgs Inflation with only a non-minimal We begin by reviewing the familiar Higgs Inflation calcu-
coupling to gravity, does not appear to be compatible with the lation. After moving from the Jordan to the Einstein frame,
BICEP result. as described in Sec. 2, the resulting action contains a non-
Before we nail the coffin shut on Higgs Inflation, however, canonical kinetic term for the Higgs field. One cannot, in
there is one possible additional source of uncertainty that mer- general, find a field redefinition that makes the kinetic term
its further investigation. As we describe below, when one goes canonical globally [21, 50]. At this point, it is customary to
beyond the tree level, there are gauge ambiguities involved in move to the unitary gauge where the Higgs doublet is written
the calculation of effective potentials that need to be consid- as 4)(x) = e2ix. (x)* (0, h(x)/y')T. Then the kinetic term
ered when deriving constraints on parameters. for the radial Higgs excitation can be normalized by the field
redefinition x(h) where
4. GAUGE DEPENDENCE AMBIGUITIES 1 3 111,(d1221dh)2
dxldh — (7)
IV 2 122
When working with a gauge theory, such as the Stan-
dard Model electroweak sector, calculations typically involve and now 122 = 1+ 0 294.
spurious gauge dependence that cancels when physical ob- Having canonically normalized both the gravity and Higgs
servable are calculated. For example, in a spontaneously kinetic terms, the derivation of the effective potential proceeds
broken Yang-Mills theory one may work in the renormaliz- along the standard lines. We calculate the RG improved, one-
able class of gauges (RE) upon augmenting the Lagrangian loop effective potential as described in the Appendix. After
with a gauge fixing term Ci l = —GaG a /2 where G a = performing the RG improvement, the parameter A that appears
(1/ vc1)(8 1,A a P — x,) where Xi are the would-be in Eq. (3) should be understood at the running coupling eval-
Goldstone boson fields and Fa; = 7',Ivj with Tal the sym- uated at the scale of inflation. Generally, A C 0.1 and its
metry generators and vj the symmetry-breaking vacuum ex- value depends upon the physical Higgs boson and top quark
pectation value. (See, e.g., [33]). A corresponding Fadeev- masses at the input scale. For the best fit observed values,
Popov ghost term is also added. Physical or "on-shell" quan- MH 125 GeV and Mt :4 173 GeV, the coupling runs neg-
tities, such as cross sections and decay rates, may be calcu- ative at h 107° — 1012 GeV; this is the well-known vacuum
lated perturbatively, and any dependence on the gauge fix- stability problem of the Standard Model [26]. Successful HI
ing parameter, Gi, cancels order-by-order. Unphysical or requires an O(2e) deviation from central values toward either
"off-shell" quantities, such as propagators or one-particle irre- larger Higgs boson mass or smaller top quark mass.
ducible Green's functions, may harmlessly retain the spurious Gauge dependence enters the calculation at two places: ex-
gauge dependence. plicitly in the one-loop correction to the effective potential and
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forming the RG improvement.
To calculate the slow roll parameters, e.g. • 0.77672
a e2 0.77671
e /11 2 1kemi, (8)
2 .. 0.77670
the derivatives are taken with respect to x, i.e., V'(h(x)) =
(OVI8h)(dx1dh)—' . The potential and its derivatives are
1 0.77669
0.77668
evaluated at the field value, hc„,b, for which the number of
e-foldings, given by 0.77667
123 124 125 126 127 128
dh V(h) Higgs Mass: Mn I Gay
(9)
Ansa V'(h).1111,
FIG. I: The predicted energy scale of inflation. Vini4; 4., over a range
is J1I = 60. Inflation terminates at h = fiend where of Higgs boson masses (AIN). for three values of the top quark mass
(%11,./2)(VIV)2 = 1. (Aft), and in the Landau gauge. CO = 0.
In Fig. 1 we show the energy scale of inflation,
Vint = V(hanko) (10) 0 77660
as the the Higgs boson and top quark masses are varied, and
0 0.77675
the non-minimal coupling, sr,: few x 103, is determined to O
match the observed amplitude of scalar perturbations. This 2 0.77670
demonstrates that the scale of inflation is insensitive to MR, 125 GO.
varying only at the O(10-4) level. It always remains signif- 0.77665
icantly below 2 x 1016 GeV, which indicates the incompat-
ibility with the BICEP2 measurement. (The corresponding
tensor-to-scalar ratio is r 'Az 0.003.)
1 0.77660
124 GeV
73 0.77655
To illustrate the gauge dependence, we show in Fig. 2 how
lid varies with 41. We find that 14„r also changes at a level 0.77650
1 2 3
comparable to its sensitivity to Mg or Ali as the gauge pa- Gauge Parameter: (yo
rameter deviates from the Landau gauge (egc = 0). It is there-
fore important to consider this ambiguity for model building
FIG. 2: The energy scale of inflation. Vint. as the gauge parameter.
purposes. Nevertheless, the absolute change in lid is far too Gr. varies. We fix Aft = 170 CeV and show three values of M11.
small to reconcile HI with the BICEP2 measurement.
Note that at larger vales of Co the scale of inflation appears
to continue to decrease, but in this limit the perturbative valid-
ity of the calculation begins to break down. To resolve this is- ability to explore fundamental physics and the early universe.
sue, the unphysical degrees of freedom, the Goldstone bosons If the measurement of r 0.2 is confirmed, then it is rea-
and ghosts, should be decoupled as the unitary gauge is ap- sonable to expect that, in the not-too-distant future, measure-
proached. ments of the spectrum of primordial tensor perturbations will
Our numerical results appear consistent with the Nielsen become possible, allowing further tests of inflation. And if
identities [31, 32] which capture the gauge dependence of the the measured r can unambiguously be shown to be due to in-
effective potential. The relevant identity is flation, then this also substantiates the quantization of gravity
[51].
fr 8 C(Q514) a veff(4),4) = •
— (I I) Thus, future observations will provide significant con-
straints on particle physics and models of inflation. However
In the slow roll regime, the gradient of the effective potential is the simple observation of non-zero r already signals the death
small, and the gauge dependence is proportionally suppressed. knell for low-scale models of inflation. This includes the class
We note that a rigorous gauge invariant calculation could of models captured by the potential in Eq. (3), and among
perhaps take Eq. (II) as a starting point. This might be an these apparently Higgs Inflation. We have shown that r z 0.2
interesting avenue for future work, either in the context of HI essentially excludes canonical Higgs Inflation in the absence
or other, potentially more viable models of inflation that are of extreme fine tuning. The Higgs field may live on as the
embedded in gauge theories. inflaton but only with significant non-minimal variants of HI.
In our analysis we have also drawn attention to the issue of
gauge dependence in the Higgs Inflation calculation. We find
5. CONCLUSION that the energy scale of inflation acquires an artificial depen-
dence on the gauge fixing parameter by virtue of the gauge de-
The recent detection of B-modes by the BICEP2 collabo- pendence of the effective potential from it is extracted. How-
ration represents a profound and exciting leap forward in our ever, we find this gauge dependence of the scale of inflation
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is comparable to the dependence on other physical parameter where Q2 = 1+ 4h2/MA was given by Eq. (2). We denote
uncertainties, which are themselves small. While this may be the gauge fixing parameter by 4gr to distinguish it from the
important for model building purposes, it does not affect the non-minimal gravitational coupling parameter, 4.
robustness of the fact that large r disfavors Higgs Inflation. We implement the RG improvement as per [52-541. (See
also the reviews [55, 56]). This consists of (1) solving the
RG equations (RGEs) to determine the running parameters as
Acknowledgments functions of the RG flow parameter t, (2) replacing the vari-
ous coupling constants in Var with the corresponding running
This work was supported by ANU and by the US DOE un- parameter, and (3) evaluating the RG flow parameter at the
der Grant No. DE-SC0008016. We would like to thank Jayden appropriate value t = t„ so as to minimize the would-be large
L. Newstead for help with the code. logarithms.
For the sake of discussion, let us denote
the running parameters collectively as 6(0
Appendix A: Standard Model Effective Potential {§3(t), §2(t),Di (t), AO), (thew}
where 92 = g and
gf = 9'. Then the RGEs take the form %,/(1+ ^y) = dei ldt
The Standard Model effective potential is calculated (i) to with the boundary condition 4(t = 0) = 4.0. Here 7 is
the one-loop order, (ii) working in the V. g renormalization the anomalous dimension of the Higgs field. We neglect
scheme with renormalization scale p, and (iii) in the renor- the running of the gauge-fixing parameter, 4gf, since it is
malizable class of gauges (RE) as follows: self-renormalized. This approximation is reasonable since
we focus on 4gf C tr; for larger values of Co, perturb&
Voir(h) = 11(1*(h) + V(1)(h) . (Al) tivity becomes an issue. The Higgs field runs according to
= dialdt where the anomalous dimension y(t) is given
The tree-level potential is
as [57]
V00(h). —114 , (A2)
4
= (4102
1 [ 4
9 ( 1 / 92 C3
and we can neglect the 0(h°) and O(h2) terms for the pur- 1 r(271 3 z ) _4 9 gig2
2 2 e •2
poses of studying HI where the field value is large. The one- lk 32 — — ri see — — uA
- Orr fi r
loop correction is [55] (see also [34] for gauge dependent fac- 431 4 5( 9 2 17 ,,2 +8n2) 2 27 41
tors) — 96 _ a3 Ye + -4 Yej • (A5)
2 4a02
12 fiel ( 7112 3) This last equation may be solved immediately along with the
141)(h) = — In —— (A3)
4 16w2 p2 2 boundary condition AU = 0) = to obtain
6 no (
In — — + nlz (In itz — 6
+ 4 16r2 p2 6 4 16w2 h(t) = " (0 (A6)
1 lilt , lit 3 2771%4 4 3)
÷ - — ( Ill - ± - - Into - where = — fo ^y(9)1(1+7(9))de, and we seek to cal-
4 16r2 p2 2) 4 16r2 p2 2
culate the effective potential as a function of ha. The beta
2 lie ( ih2 functions are independent of 4gr, but the anomalous dimen-
- -S Ill S i 3 1 S
M III th " -
4 16r2 112 2) 4 1670 p2 2 sion is gauge-variant since the Higgs field is a gauge-variant
operator. Finally, the renormalization scale runs according to
where we have neglected the light fennions. We also neglect = dµ/dt, which may be solved along with µ(t = 0) = Po
the contribution from the Higgs mass term. During inflation, to obtain p(t) = poet.
the potential is very flat and this contribution is subdominant. We solve the one-loop beta functions using the Mathe-
The remaining SM fields, the massless photon and gluons, do matica code made publicly available by Fedor Bezrukov at
not enter the effective potential at the one-loop order. The http: //www. inr .ac ru/ - fedor/SM/ . The code im-
effective masses are plements the matching at the electroweak scale to determine
- 2 ti2 h2 the couplings, cco, at the scale po = Me in terms of the phys-
Top Quark M l
4 142 ical macs,'; and parameters. The code was extended (I) by
W-Bosons generalizing the anomalous dimension to the RE gauge as in
Z-Bosons - 2 9 1 2 1.2 Eq. (AS), and (2) by including the field-dependent factors of
2 3)(3.,2 -fh -
Higgs Boson 17L - We, n2+642h2 a
- 2 tl
Neutral Goldstone MC =
1 +
Afp
2
TIT L2 -I- " i.cf. — (A7)
Charged Goldstones MG& = 1
3- h 2
1+ (1+ 6;(t))
Ghosts lit 2
4z = 4,64
Ghosts =4012iv in the two-loop beta functions, as indicated by [13]. The factor
(A4) of s arises because of the non-canonical Higgs kinetic term,
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and it appears in the commutator of the Higgs field with its function of the field variable, hc. This can be seen by writing
conjugate momentum [9].
Finally the RG-improved effective potential is evaluated
1
as in Eq. (Al) after making the replacements A —> ..A(t„), t.. — [9t(t.)2c2P".)hl 1 In [ tigh l • (A9)
2 2 24 J
g -> è(t.), h —> h(t.), it —> µ(t,), and so on. The RG
flow parameter, t., is chosen to minimize the would-be large
logarithm arising from the top quark. This is accomplished by Using Eq. (A8 , the commutator factor in Eq. (A7) is written
solving as
iiat)2i1(02 t 2P(t
= 1, (A8) S= [1 + 12E() 2 (A10)
2(1 + t(t0r 2 )!t(t) 2L=i- Ye al p )21
which must be done numerically. Note that ti, is an implicit and the field dependence drops out.
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