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Renormalization Using Momentum Cut-off Regularization, What Are The Subtraction Schemes Used?

In most of the books on QFT, the author talks about various methods of regularization but in the end chooses the dimensional regularization and MS-bar scheme when discussing the final renormalization, I have not seen any review, books or lecture notes where the author actually takes momentum cut-off as regularization and proceeds towards renormalizing the theory. I totally understand and appreciate the elegance and usefulness of dimensional method, but in certain situations we may need to take hard momentum cut-off ($ Lambda $) route and do the renormalization, but in doing that we face the problem of exactly how to handle the polynomial divergence ($ Lambda^n $ kind, if any ) and the logarythmic one !

Suppose I have a one-loop calculation of an amplitude:

begin{align}
A = A_{finite} + a_n (frac{Lambda}{m})^n + b logfrac{Lambda^2}{m^2}
end{align}

Where $ m $ is any mass. How exactly should we proceed to derive various renormalized parameters of our theory. What subtraction schemes exist in this regularization ?


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