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Finite-volume effects in long-distance processes with massless leptonic propagators

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2021-01-13 v1

Abstract

In Ref. [1], a method was proposed to calculate QED corrections to hadronic self energies from lattice QCD without power-law finite-volume errors. In this paper, we extend the method to processes which occur at second-order in the weak interaction and in which there is a massless (or almost massless) leptonic propagator. We demonstrate that, in spite of the presence of the propagator of an almost massless electron, such an infinite-volume reconstruction procedure can be used to obtain the amplitude for the rare kaon decay K+π+ννˉK^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu from a lattice quantum chromodynamics computation with only exponentially small finite-volume corrections.

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@article{arxiv.2009.08287,
  title  = {Finite-volume effects in long-distance processes with massless leptonic propagators},
  author = {Norman H. Christ and Xu Feng and Lu-Chang Jin and Christopher T. Sachrajda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08287},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, 3 figures