Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory for Heavy-light Mesons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We formulate quenched chiral perturbation theory for heavy-light mesons coupled to pions, and calculate the one-loop chiral logarithmic corrections to , , and . We also calculate these corrections for ``partially quenched'' theories. In both theories, the chiral logarithms diverge in the chiral limit, indicating that (partially) quenched theories should not be used to study this limit. Comparing the chiral logarithms to those in QCD, we estimate the errors caused by (partial) quenching. By forming suitable ratios, we can reduce the uncertainties in our estimates.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9510037,
title = {Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory for Heavy-light Mesons},
author = {Stephen R. Sharpe and Yan Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9510037},
year = {2009}
}
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22 pages, revtex format, 5 Postscript figures