The trace anomaly cancels in A_π(Q²) but dominates the TJJ contribution to the pion trace form factor in a Sudakov-improved QCD factorization calculation matched to lattice data.
Renormalization, Conformal Ward Identities and the Origin of a Conformal Anomaly Pole
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We investigate the emergence of a conformal anomaly pole in conformal field theories in the case of the $TJJ$ correlator. We show how it comes to be generated in dimensional renormalization, using a basis of 13 form factors (the $F$-basis), where only one of them requires renormalization $(F_{13})$, extending previous studies. We then combine recent results on the structure of the non-perturbative solutions of the conformal Ward identities (CWI's) for the $TJJ$ in momentum space, expressed in terms of a minimal set of 4 form factors ($A-$ basis), with the properties of the $F$-basis, and show how the singular behaviour of the corresponding form factors in both basis can be related. The result proves the centrality of such massless effective interactions induced by the anomaly, which have recently found realization in solid state, in the theory of topological insulators and of Weyl semimetals. This pattern is confirmed in massless abelian and nonabelian theories (QED and QCD) investigated at one-loop.
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The Pion Gravitational Form Factors and the Trace Anomaly in QCD Factorization
The trace anomaly cancels in A_π(Q²) but dominates the TJJ contribution to the pion trace form factor in a Sudakov-improved QCD factorization calculation matched to lattice data.