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On the absence of fifth-order contributions to the nucleon mass in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory
(New version with some expanded discussion; figures and minor typos
corrected.)
We have calculated the contribution proportional to the fifth power of the
pion mass in the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass in two flavour HBCPT.
Only one irreducible two-loop integral enters, and this vanishes. All other
corrections in the heavy-baryon limit can be absorbed in the physical
pion-nucleon coupling constant which enters in the third order term, and so
there are no contributions at fifth order. Including finite nucleon mass
corrections, the only contribution agrees with the expansion of the
relativistic one-loop graph in powers of the ration of the pion and nucleon
masses, and is only 0.3% of the third order term. This is an encouraging result
for the convergence of two-flavour heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory.Comment: 4 pages RevTex, 4 eps figure
Baryon Electromagnetic Properties in Partially Quenched Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory
The electromagnetic properties of baryons containing a heavy quark are
calculated at next-to-leading order in partially quenched heavy hadron chiral
perturbation theory. Calculations are performed for three light flavors in the
isospin limit and additionally for two light non-degenerate flavors. We use
partially-quenched charge matrices that are easy to implement on the lattice.
The results presented are necessary for the light quark mass extrapolation and
zero-momentum extrapolation of lattice QCD and partially quenched lattice QCD
calculations of heavy hadron electromagnetic properties. Additionally relations
between the sextet electromagnetic form factors and transition form factors are
derived.Comment: 29 pages, 3 figures, RevTex
Integrating out the heaviest quark in N--flavour ChPT
We extend a known method to integrate out the strange quark in three flavour
chiral perturbation theory to the context of an arbitrary number of flavours.
As an application, we present the explicit formulae to one--loop accuracy for
the heavy quark mass dependency of the low energy constants after decreasing
the number of flavours by one while integrating out the heaviest quark in
N--flavour chiral perturbation theory.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure. Text and references added. To appear in EPJ
Strangeness in the Scalar Form Factor of the Nucleon
The scalar form factor of the nucleon and related physical quantities are
investigated in the framework of the semibosonized SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio
soliton model. We take into account the rotational corrections and
linear corrections. The strangeness content of the nucleon in the scalar
form factor is discussed in detail. In particular, it is found that the
corrections play an essential role of reducing the arising from the leading order and rotational contributions.
We obtain the \sigma_{\pi N} (0)=40.80\;\mbox{MeV}, \Delta \sigma =
\sigma_{\pi N} (2m^{2}_{\pi})-\sigma_{\pi N} (0) = 18.18\;\mbox{MeV} and
\langle r^2\rangle^{S}_{N} = 1.50\;\mbox{fm}^2.
The results are in a remarkable agreement with empirical data analyzed by
Gasser, Leutwyler, and Sainio~\cite{gls}.Comment: 13 pages, RevTex is used. 3 figures as uufiles are include
Chiral perturbation theory with Wilson-type fermions including effects: degenerate case
We have derived the quark mass dependence of , and
, using the chiral perturbation theory which includes the effect
associated with the explicit chiral symmetry breaking of the Wilson-type
fermions, in the case of the degenerate quarks. Distinct features of
the results are (1) the additive renormalization for the mass parameter
in the Lagrangian, (2) corrections to the chiral log ()
term, (3) the existence of more singular term, , generated by
contributions, and (4) the existence of both and terms
in the quark mass from the axial Ward-Takahashi identity, . By
fitting the mass dependence of and , obtained by the
CP-PACS collaboration for full QCD simulations, we have found that the
data are consistently described by the derived formulae. Resumming the most
singular terms , we have also derived the modified formulae, which
show a better control over the next-to-leading order correction.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures (10 eps files), Revtex4, some discussions and
references added, the final version to appear in PR
Chiral Corrections to Lattice Calculations of Charge Radii
Logarithmic divergences in pion and proton charge radii associated with
chiral loops are investigated to assess systematic uncertainties in current
lattice determinations of charge radii. The chiral corrections offer a possible
solution to the long standing problem of why present lattice calculations yield
proton and pion radii which are similar in size.Comment: PostScript file only. Ten pages. Figures included. U. of MD Preprint
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Thermal Pions at Finite Isospin Chemical Potential
The density corrections, in terms of the isospin chemical potential ,
to the mass of the pions are studied in the framework of the SU(2) low energy
effective chiral lagrangian. The pion decay constant is
also analized. As a function of temperature for , the mass remains
quite stable, starting to grow for very high values of , confirming previous
results. However, there are interesting corrections to the mass when both
effects (temperature and chemical potential) are simultaneously present. At
zero temperature the should condensate when . This is not longer valid anymore at finite . The mass of the
acquires also a non trivial dependence on due to the finite
temperature.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
A global fit of and elastic scattering in ChPT with dispersion relations
We apply the one-loop results of the ChPT suplemented
with the inverse amplitude method to fit the available experimental data on
and scattering. With esentially only three parameters we
describe accurately data corresponding to six different channels, namely
and . In addition we
reproduce the first resonances of the and channel with the
right mass corresponding to the and the particles.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures available on request, FT/UCM/10/9
Pion propagation in real time field theory at finite temperature
We describe how the thermal counterpart of a vacuum two-point function may be
obtained in the real time formalism in a simple way by using directly the
matrices that different elements acquire in this formalism. Using
this procedure we calculate the analytic (single component) thermal amplitude
for the pion pole term in the ensemble average of two axial-vector currents to
two loops in chiral perturbation theory. The general expressions obtained for
the effective mass and decay constants of the pion are evaluated in the chiral
and the nonrelativistic limits. We also investigate the effect of massive
states on these effective parameters.Comment: 17 pages TeX and 9 eps figure
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