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Quantum electrodynamics for vector mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Quantum electrodynamics for ρ\rho mesons is considered. It is shown that, at tree level, the value of the gyromagnetic ratio of the ρ+\rho^+ is fixed to 2 in a self-consistent effective quantum field theory. Further, the mixing parameter of the photon and the neutral vector meson is equal to the ratio of electromagnetic and strong couplings, leading to the mass difference Mρ0Mρ±1MeVM_{\rho^0}-M_{\rho^\pm}\sim 1 {\rm MeV} at tree order.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505180,
  title  = {Quantum electrodynamics for vector mesons},
  author = {D. Djukanovic and M. R. Schindler and J. Gegelia and S. Scherer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505180},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX 4, accepted for publication in PRL