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Quark ACM with topologically generated gluon mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-03-15 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effect of a small, gauge-invariant mass of the gluon on the anomalous chromomagnetic moment of quarks (ACM) by perturbative calculations at one loop level. The mass of the gluon is taken to have been generated via a topological mass generation mechanism, in which the gluon acquires a mass through its interaction with an antisymmetric tensor field BμνB_{\mu \nu}. For a small gluon mass (<10(<10 MeV), we calculate the ACM at momentum transfer q2=MZ2q^2=-M_Z^2. We compare those with the ACM calculated for the gluon mass arising from a Proca mass term. We find that the ACM of up, down, strange and charm quarks vary significantly with the gluon mass, while the ACM of top and bottom quarks show negligible gluon mass dependence. The mechanism of gluon mass generation is most important for the strange quarks ACM, but not so much for the other quarks. We also show the results at q2=mt2q^2=-m_t^2. We find that the dependence on gluon mass at q2=mt2q^2=-m_t^2 is much less than at q2=MZ2q^2=-M_Z^2 for all quarks.

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@article{arxiv.1603.04164,
  title  = {Quark ACM with topologically generated gluon mass},
  author = {Ishita Dutta Choudhury and Amitabha Lahiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04164},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Text agrees with published version. Fig.7(f) is incorrect in journal

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