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On the factorization of chiral logarithms in the pion form factors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-10-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The recently proposed hard-pion chiral perturbation theory predicts that the leading chiral logarithms factorize with respect to the energy dependence in the chiral limit. This claim has been successfully tested in the pion form factors up to two loops in chiral perturbation theory. In the present paper we explain this factorization property at two loops and even show that it is valid to all orders for a subclass of diagrams. We also demonstrate that factorization is violated starting at three loops.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0498,
  title  = {On the factorization of chiral logarithms in the pion form factors},
  author = {Gilberto Colangelo and Massimiliano Procura and Lorena Rothen and Ramon Stucki and Jaume Tarrus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0498},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

20 pages, 4 figures. A few misprints corrected and references added, version appeared in JHEP