The one-loop effective potential of the Wess-Zumino model revisited

Understand

The full one-loop supersymmetric effective potential for the Wess-Zumino model is calculated using superfield techniques.

• This includes the K\"ahler 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.