Extracting Hadron Parameters from Dispersive Sum Rules
Abstract
Puzzled or surprised by the almost incredible accuracy occasionally claimed in the literature to be achievable for numerical outcomes of QCD sum-rule analyses, we scrutinized the usual procedure employed for the extraction of the parameters of individual bound states from dispersive sum rules by taking advantage of the exact solvability of a quantum-mechanical harmonic-oscillator model: It turns out that the determination of the ground-state parameters (that is, decay constant and form factor) by requiring independence from the Borel mass in its stability window does not necessarily yield their exact numerical values. For instance, the comparison of the sum-rule predictions for bound-state parameters with their numerical values known precisely in our harmonic-oscillator model reveals that standard sum-rule procedures underestimate the ground-state decay constant by some 4% and its form factor by almost 15%; such systematic uncertainties cannot be inferred from our correlators' accuracy better than 1% in the window of Borel stability: they are uncontrollable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.0533,
title = {Extracting Hadron Parameters from Dispersive Sum Rules},
author = {Wolfgang Lucha and D. Melikhov and S. Simula},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0533},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
to appear in the proceedings of the 8th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum