Wick-rotated cutoff tadpole mass shift

ID: wick-rotated-cutoff-tadpole-mass-shift

With interaction , the tadpole diagram has symmetry factor one half. After Wick rotation and a rotationally invariant Euclidean cutoff, its self-energy is . The sphere area and radial integral give the displayed shift. It is independent of external momentum, so no one-loop momentum-dependent wave-function renormalization arises from this graph. Different regulator schemes can treat power divergences differently while defining the same chosen pole mass.

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