277 research outputs found
Chiral Low-Energy Constants: Status and Prospects
Chiral low-energy constants (LECs) carry the information of short-distance
dynamics involving heavier degrees of freedom not present in the chiral
Lagrangian. Our knowledge of the LECs is all-important at phenomenological
level because their relevance in the prediction of hadronic observables at
low-energies and on the other side because they provide hints on the
construction of a dual theory of QCD in the low-energy regime. I review briefly
the status of these important couplings.Comment: 7 pages. Talk given at the 31st International Conference of
Theoretical Physics, 5-11 Sep 2007, Ustron (Katowice, Poland
Hadronic decays of the tau lepton: Theoretical outlook
The structure of the form factors stemmed from the hadronization of QCD
currents in the energy region of the resonances can be explored through the
analyses of exclusive hadronic decays of the tau lepton. I give a short review
on the later theoretical progress achieved in the description of experimental
data.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures. Talk given at the 9th International Workshop on
Tau Lepton Physics, TAU06, 19th-22nd September 2006, Pisa (Italy). Error in
the text corrected. Settings and conclusions unchange
Large-Nc estimate of the chiral low-energy constants
Chiral low-energy constants incorporate short-distance information from the
dynamics involving heavier degrees of freedom not present in the chiral
Lagrangian. We have studied the contribution of the lightest resonances to the
chiral low-energy constants, up to O(p^6), within a systematic procedure guided
by the large-Nc limit of QCD and also including short-distance asymptotic
constraints.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at the Final Euridice Meeting
"Effective Theories of colours and flavours : from EURODAPHNE to EURIDICE",
24th-27th August 2006, Kazimierz (Poland
Semileptonic decays of charmed mesons in the effective action of QCD
Within the framework of phenomenological Lagrangians we construct the
effective action of QCD relevant for the study of semileptonic decays of
charmed mesons. Hence we evaluate the form factors of D -> P(0^-) l^+ nu_l at
leading order in the 1/N_C expansion and, by demanding their QCD-ruled
asymptotic behaviour, we constrain the couplings of the Lagrangian. The
features of the model-independent parameterization of form factors provided and
their relevance for the analysis of experimental data are pointed out.Comment: 1+24 pages, 1 figure. Updated version. Conclusions unchanged.
Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal
New contributions to heavy quark sum rules
We analyse new contributions to the theoretical input in heavy quark sum
rules and we show that the general theory of singularities of perturbation
theory amplitudes yields the method to handle these specific features. In
particular we study the inclusion of heavy quark radiation by light quarks at
O(alpha_s^2) and non-symmetric correlators at O(alpha_s^3). Closely related, we
also propose a solution to the construction of moments of the spectral
densities at O(alpha_s^3) where the presence of massless contributions
invalidates the standard approach. We circumvent this problem through a new
definition of the moments, providing an infrared safe and consistent procedure.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted for publication in The European
Journal of Physics C; several new comments and references added, conclusions
unchange
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