Put and use the same . With a symmetric cutoff , the BCS gap equation becomes
The frequency integral is , so
Thus
The gap and the one-loop strong-coupling scale have the same nonperturbative exponential dependence; their order-one prefactors depend on the cutoff convention and microscopic completion. The renormalization-group divergence is therefore the normal-state signal of the paired, gapped phase found from the self-consistent gap equation.