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Four-point correlator constraints on electromagnetic chiral parameters and resonance effective Lagrangians

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B. Ananthanarayan, B. Moussallam

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 21 May 2004 · 53 references

Pith's verdict: The structural result — minimal O(p4) resonance Lagrangian fails the four-point convergence conditions, O(p6) operators repair them — holds up; the abstract's 'completely and uniquely determined' does not, since the σ branch and the d3 choice are plausibility picks that feed Table 1 and the Dashen number without error bars.

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The standard order-four resonance Lagrangian fails the electromagnetic sum rules, and a set of order-six couplings repairs them.

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Chiral perturbation theory with virtual photons contains a set of low-energy constants at order $e^2p^2$ that control electromagnetic corrections to pion and kaon observables. These constants can be written as integrals of ordinary QCD Green's functions weighted by a free photon propagator, generalizing the classic sum rule for the $�pi^+-�pi^0$ mass splitting. The authors work out the case of four-point Green's functions, which had not been treated in detail, and ask whether the standard resonance Lagrangian truncated at chiral order four gives convergent integrals. It does not: several of the relevant combinations diverge logarithmically, and the divergences can be cancelled only by adding specific terms of chiral order six, whose couplings are then fixed by the requirement of finiteness together with generalized Weinberg sum rules. If the argument holds, the widely used order-four resonance Lagrangian is not a sufficient tool for these electromagnetic sum rules, and the new couplings are predicted rather than fitted, which in turn shifts the numerical estimate of the corrections to Dashen's theorem.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the integral representation: each electromagnetic chiral coupling is written as a convolution of a pure-QCD $n$-point Green's function with the free photon propagator, with charge spurions $q_V$ and $q_A$ promoted to sources on the same footing as $v_�mu$ and $a_�mu$. Convergence of that integral in dimensional regularization is then a short-distance statement about the QCD correlator, and it can be tested by evaluating the correlator with a resonance Lagrangian in the leading large-$N_c$ approximation. The particular combinations $�Pi_i$ are constructed so that the QCD counterterms cancel, so any residual $�log �Lambda^2$ signals that the resonance Lagrangian is missing operators; the coefficients of those logs are what force the order-six terms and their couplings.

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Core claim

The paper establishes that the minimal resonance Lagrangian of Ecker and collaborators, which contains all terms of chiral order four built from vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar resonances and which Baur and Urech had used to estimate the electromagnetic couplings $K_i$, does not make the photon-loop integrals for the combinations $�Pi_1$ through $�Pi_9$ finite. The authors compute the $�Lambda^2$ dependence of each combination explicitly and find that only $�Pi_7$ and $�Pi_9$ converge, yielding the two Weinberg sum rules $F_V^2 = F_0^2 + F_A^2$ and $M_V^2 F_V^2 = M_A^2 F_A^2$; $�Pi_4$ vanishes identically at this order, and $�Pi_1$, $�Pi_2$, $�Pi_3$, $�Pi_5$ and $�Pi_8$ are left divergent. Enlarging the Lagrangian with order-six operators of the $a_1�rho�pi$, $a_0 f_1 �pi$ and $�omega�rho�pi$ types restores finiteness, and the finiteness conditions turn into nonlinear equations that determine the new couplings: quadratic relations for $G_1$ and $G_2$, the relation $c_A F_A = �sqrt{2} c_d$ for the scalar sector, and $c_5 + c_7 = 0$ together with a reduction to a single coupling $d_3$ in the antisymmetric-tensor treatment of $�omega�rho�pi$. The resulting $K_1$ through $K_6$ are tabulated and fed into the electromagnetic correction to Dashen's theorem, where the $K_5 + K_6$ piece changes sign relative to earlier estimates and reduces the size of the correction.

Load-bearing premise

The chain rests on choosing one of two surviving real solutions for the $a_1�rho�pi$ couplings $G_1$ and $G_2$; the authors pick the branch that stays finite as the axial-to-vector mass ratio grows, calling it the most plausible choice rather than deriving it, and that choice propagates into $K_1$, $K_2$, $K_5$, $K_6$ and into the Dashen-theorem correction.

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  • The minimal order-four resonance Lagrangian is not adequate for determining the electromagnetic chiral couplings at order $e^2p^2$; any estimate built from it alone carries an unremoved short-distance ambiguity.
  • The order-six couplings of the $a_1�rho�pi$, $a_0 f_1 �pi$ and $�omega�rho�pi$ type are fixed by finiteness plus Weinberg-type sum rules, so they become predictions rather than free parameters.
  • The numerical values of $K_1$ through $K_6$ shift, and with them the electromagnetic correction to Dashen's theorem, which the authors quote as $�Delta M_�pi^2[0.59 - 0.34 + 1.25]$ in units of the physical $�pi^+-�pi^0$ mass difference.
  • The prediction $c_A F_A = �sqrt{2} c_d$ implies a width $�Gamma_{f_1 �to a_0 �pi} �simeq 7.7$ MeV, close to the measured $8.6 �pm 1.7$ MeV.
  • The same finiteness logic applied to the $�omega�rho�pi$ sector yields a value for the coupling combination entering $�pi^0 �to 2�gamma$ radiative corrections, in agreement with the vector-formalism estimate.

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  • If finiteness of the photon-loop integral is a genuine short-distance constraint, it should also be testable against lattice determinations of the four-point correlators at intermediate momenta, which would either confirm the required order-six operator content or expose it as an artefact of the narrow-resonance truncation.
  • The same procedure can be pushed to other electromagnetic couplings not covered here, such as those entering semileptonic kaon decays, where a parallel set of couplings is known to suffer similar ambiguities.
  • Because the branch choice for $G_1$ and $G_2$ is settled by a plausibility argument about the $z �to �infty$ behaviour rather than by a derivation, an independent determination of the $a_1�rho�pi$ couplings from decay data would be a sharp check on the whole chain.
  • The pattern here, that a truncated resonance Lagrangian fails a convergence test and the repair fixes couplings uniquely, suggests that similar truncation failures may lurk in other sum rules where only the leading chiral order has been retained.
Original abstract

We pursue the analysis of a set of generalized DGMLY sum rules for the electromagnetic chiral parameters at order $e^2p^2$ and discuss implications for effective Lagrangians with resonances. We exploit a formalism in which charge spurions are introduced and treated as sources. We show that no inconsistency arises from anomalies up to quadratic order in the spurions. We focus on the sum rules associated with QCD 4-point correlators which were not analyzed in detail before. Convergence properties of the sum rules are deduced from a general analysis of the form of the counterterms in the presence of electromagnetic spurions. Following the approach in which vector and axial-vector resonances are described with antisymmetric tensor fields and have a chiral order, we show that the convergence constraints are violated at chiral order four and can be satisfied by introducing a set of terms of order six. The relevant couplings get completely and uniquely determined from a set of generalized Weinberg sum-rule relations. An update on the corrections to Dashen's low-energy theorem is given.

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We pursue the analysis of a set of generalized DGMLY sum rules for the electromagnetic chiral parameters at order $e^2p^2$ and discuss implications for effective Lagrangians with resonances. We exploit a formalism in which charge spurions are introduced and treated as sources. We show that no inconsistency arises from anomalies up to quadratic order in the spurions. We focus on the sum rules associated with QCD 4-point correlators which were not analyzed in detail before. Convergence properties of the sum rules are deduced from a general analysis of the form of the counterterms in the presence of electromagnetic spurions. Following the approach in which vector and axial-vector resonances are described with antisymmetric tensor fields and have a chiral order, we show that the convergence constraints are violated at chiral order four and can be satisfied by introducing a set of terms of order six. The relevant couplings get completely and uniquely determined from a set of generalized Weinberg sum-rule relations. An update on the corrections to Dashen's low-energy theorem is given.

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s0 We pursue the analysis of a set of generalized DGMLY sum rules for the electromagnetic chiral parameters at order $e^2p^2$ and discuss implications for effective Lagrangians with resonances. contribution 1.00 0.90 0.12 asserted 0.76
s1 We exploit a formalism in which charge spurions are introduced and treated as sources. method 0.99 0.88 0.03 asserted 0.97
s2 We show that no inconsistency arises from anomalies up to quadratic order in the spurions. result 0.98 0.89 0.06 asserted 1.00
s3 We focus on the sum rules associated with QCD 4-point correlators which were not analyzed in detail before. contribution 0.51 0.70 0.04 asserted 0.96
s4 Convergence properties of the sum rules are deduced from a general analysis of the form of the counterterms in the presence of electromagnetic spurions. method 0.59 0.89 0.07 asserted 1.00
s5 Following the approach in which vector and axial-vector resonances are described with antisymmetric tensor fields and have a chiral order, we show that the convergence constraints are violated at chiral order four and can be satisfied by introducing a set of terms of order six. result 0.98 0.92 0.48 asserted 1.00
s6 The relevant couplings get completely and uniquely determined from a set of generalized Weinberg sum-rule relations. result 0.99 0.85 0.30 asserted 1.00
s7 An update on the corrections to Dashen's low-energy theorem is given. contribution 0.57 0.74 0.06 asserted 0.84

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Figure 1. Typical divergent diagrams quadratic in the spurion sources (a) with an open quark line (b) with a closed quark line. Let us consider QCD in the presence of dynamical photons and a source term of the form of eq.(1). The effective action is expanded to quadratic order in the spurions qV and qA and we drop the contributions which are subleading in Nc. We can then split the divergent terms in the effective action into two categories, (a) one which collects the graphs with an open quark line and, (b) one which collects the graphs with a closed quark loop (see fig. 1). The former ones…

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