We have performed global fits of fπ and mπ, from a variety of RBC-UKQCD domain wall fermion ensembles, to SU(2) partially quenched chiral perturbation theory at NNLO. We report values for 9 NLO and 8 linearly independent combinations of NNLO partially quenched low energy constants, which we compare to other lattice and phenomenological determinations. We discuss the convergence of the expansion and use our large set of low energy constants to make predictions for the pion mass splitting due to QCD isospin breaking effects and the s-wave ππ scattering lengths. We conclude that, for the range of pseudoscalar masses explored in this work, 115MeV≲mPS≲430MeV, the NNLO SU(2) expansion is quite robust and can fit lattice data with percent-scale accuracy.
@article{arxiv.1511.04419,
title = {NLO and NNLO Low Energy Constants for $SU(2)$ Chiral Perturbation Theory},
author = {R. D. Mawhinney and D. J. Murphy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04419},
year = {2015}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 14-18 July 2015, Kobe, Japan