23 research outputs found
On the spectral problem of N=4 SYM with orthogonal or symplectic gauge group
We study the spectral problem of N=4 SYM with gauge group SO(N) and Sp(N). At
the planar level, the difference to the case of gauge group SU(N) is only due
to certain states being projected out, however at the non-planar level novel
effects appear: While 1/N-corrections in the SU(N) case are always associated
with splitting and joining of spin chains, this is not so for SO(N) and Sp(N).
Here the leading 1/N-corrections, which are due to non-orientable Feynman
diagrams in the field theory, originate from a term in the dilatation operator
which acts inside a single spin chain. This makes it possible to test for
integrability of the leading 1/N-corrections by standard (Bethe ansatz) means
and we carry out various such tests. For orthogonal and symplectic gauge group
the dual string theory lives on the orientifold AdS5xRP5. We discuss various
issues related to semi-classical strings on this background.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figures. v2: Minor clarifications, section 5 expande
Wilson Expansion of QCD Propagators at Three Loops: Operators of Dimension Two and Three
In this paper we construct the Wilson short distance operator product
expansion for the gluon, quark and ghost propagators in QCD, including
operators of dimension two and three, namely, A^2, m^2, m A^2, \ovl{\psi} \psi
and m^3. We compute analytically the coefficient functions of these operators
at three loops for all three propagators in the general covariant gauge. Our
results, taken in the Landau gauge, should help to improve the accuracy of
extracting the vacuum expectation values of these operators from lattice
simulation of the QCD propagators.Comment: 20 pages, no figure
Feynman Rules for the Rational Part of the Standard Model One-loop Amplitudes in the 't Hooft-Veltman Scheme
We study Feynman rules for the rational part of the Standard Model
amplitudes at one-loop level in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme.
Comparing our results for quantum chromodynamics and electroweak 1-loop
amplitudes with that obtained based on the Kreimer-Korner-Schilcher (KKS)
scheme, we find the latter result can be recovered when our
scheme becomes identical (by setting in our expressions)
with the KKS scheme. As an independent check, we also calculate Feynman rules
obtained in the KKS scheme, finding our results in complete agreement with
formulae presented in the literature. Our results, which are studied in two
different schemes, may be useful for clarifying the
problem in dimensional regularization. They are helpful to eliminate or find
ambiguities arising from different dimensional regularization schemes.Comment: Version published in JHEP, presentation improved, 41 pages, 10
figure
Orbifold equivalence for finite density QCD and effective field theory
In the large N_c limit, some apparently different gauge theories turn out to
be equivalent due to large N_c orbifold equivalence. We use effective field
theory techniques to explore orbifold equivalence, focusing on the specific
case of a recently discovered relation between an SO(2N_c) gauge theory and
QCD. The equivalence to QCD has been argued to hold at finite baryon chemical
potential, \mu_B, so long as one deforms the SO(2N_c) theory by certain
"double-trace" terms. The deformed SO(2N_c) theory can be studied without a
sign problem in the chiral limit, in contrast to SU(N_c) QCD at finite \mu_B.
The purpose of the double-trace deformation in the SO(2N_c) theory is to
prevent baryon number symmetry from breaking spontaneously at finite density,
which is necessary for the equivalence to large N_c QCD to be valid. The
effective field theory analysis presented here clarifies the physical
significance of double-trace deformations, and strongly supports the proposed
equivalence between the deformed SO(2N_c) theory and large N_c QCD at finite
density.Comment: 39 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. v2: Minor typo fixes and
clarification
Resummation of small-x double logarithms in QCD: semi-inclusive electron-positron annihilation
We have derived the coefficients of the highest three 1/x-enhanced small-x
logarithms of all timelike splitting functions and the coefficient functions
for the transverse fragmentation function in one-particle inclusive e^+e^-
annihilation at (in principle) all orders in massless perturbative QCD. For the
longitudinal fragmentation function we present the respective two highest
contributions. These results have been obtained from KLN-related decompositions
of the unfactorized fragmentation functions in dimensional regularization and
their structure imposed by the mass-factorization theorem. The resummation is
found to completely remove the huge small-x spikes present in the fixed-order
results for all quantities above, allowing for stable results down to very
small values of the momentum fraction and scaling variable x. Our calculations
can be extended to (at least) the corresponding as^n ln^(2n-l) x contributions
to the above quantities and their counterparts in deep-inelastic scattering.Comment: 27 pages, LaTeX, 6 eps-figure