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The full one-loop supersymmetric effective potential for the Wess-Zumino model is calculated using superfield techniques. This includes the Kähler potential and the auxiliary field potential, of which the former was originally computed in 1993 while the latter is derived for the first time. In the purely bosonic sector our results match those of older component field calculations.
In light of prior contradictory results found in the literature, the calculation of the leading term in the auxiliary field potential is approached in a variety of ways. Issues related to conditional convergence that occur during these calculations and their possible consequences are discussed.
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Kuzenko, S.M., Tyler, S.J. The one-loop effective potential of the Wess-Zumino model revisited. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 135 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)135
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