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Pion loops in quenched Quantum Chromodynamics

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We calculate the divergences of the generating functional of quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory to one loop for a generic number of flavours. The flavour number dependence of our result enlightens the mechanism of quark loop cancellation in the quenched effective theory for any Green function or S matrix element. We also apply our results to ππ\pi \pi scattering and evaluate the coefficient of the chiral log in the S-wave scattering lengths for the quenched case.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9702019,
  title  = {Pion loops in quenched Quantum Chromodynamics},
  author = {Gilberto Colangelo and Elisabetta Pallante},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9702019},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 10 pages, 1 figure

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