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Integrating out strange quarks in ChPT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study three flavour chiral perturbation theory in a limit where the strange quark mass is much larger than the external momenta and the up and down quark masses, and where the external fields are those of two-flavour chiral perturbation theory. In this case, the theory reduces to the one of SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R. Through this reduction, one can work out the strange quark mass dependence of the LECs in the two-flavour case. We present the pertinent relations at two-loop order for F,B and l_i.

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@article{arxiv.0706.0955,
  title  = {Integrating out strange quarks in ChPT},
  author = {Jurg Gasser and Christoph Haefeli and Mikhail A. Ivanov and Martin Schmid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0955},
  year   = {2008}
}
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