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Old 06-12-2011, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Hi Rob,

SUSY doesn't eliminate the need for renormalization.
There are two types of divergences, logarithmic and quadratic divergences.
Renormalization handles logarithmic divergences quite well, quadratic divergences are a different story.

SUSY eliminates the quadratic divergences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_problem

Regards

Steven
Nice clarification! Thanks, Steven.

Regards, Rob
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