Starting from the QCD Schroedinger functional (SF), we define a family of renormalization schemes for two four-quark operators, which are, in the chiral limit, protected against mixing with other operators. With the appropriate flavour assignments these operators can be interpreted as part of either the ΔF=1 or ΔF=2 effective weak Hamiltonians. In view of lattice QCD with Wilson-type quarks, we focus on the parity odd components of the operators, since these are multiplicatively renormalized both on the lattice and in continuum schemes. We consider 9 different SF schemes and relate them to commonly used continuum schemes at one-loop order of perturbation theory. In this way the two-loop anomalous dimensions in the SF schemes can be inferred. As a by-product of our calculation we also obtain the one-loop cutoff effects in the step-scaling functions of the respective renormalization constants, for both O(a) improved and unimproved Wilson quarks. Our results will be needed in a separate study of the non-perturbative scale evolution of these operators.
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0505003,
title = {A perturbative study of two four-quark operators in finite volume renormalization schemes},
author = {F. Palombi and C. Pena and S. Sint},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0505003},
year = {2015}
}