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Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2: a Dyson-Schwinger equation approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We determine the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon using the framework of Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations of QCD. Our result for the pseudoscalar (π0,η,η\pi^0, \eta, \eta') meson exchange diagram is commensurate with previous calculations. In our calculation of the quark loop contribution we improve previous approaches by implementing constraints due to gauge invariance. As a consequence, our value aμLBL;quarkloop=(136±59)×1011a_\mu^{\textrm{LBL;quarkloop}} = (136 \pm 59)\times 10^{-11} is significantly larger. Taken at face value, this then leads to a revised estimate of the total aμ=116591891.0(105.0)×1011a_\mu=116\,591\,891.0(105.0)\times 10^{-11}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.3886,
  title  = {Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2: a Dyson-Schwinger equation approach},
  author = {Tobias Goecke and Christian S. Fischer and Richard Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3886},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D