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Short-distance HLbL contributions to the muon g-2

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-25 v1

Abstract

The current 3.7σ3.7\sigma discrepancy between the Standard Model prediction and the experimental value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment could be a hint for the existence of new physics. The hadronic light-by-light contribution is one of the pieces requiring improved precision on the theory side, and an important step is to derive short-distance constraints for this quantity containing four electromagnetic currents. Here, we derive such short-distance constraints for three large photon loop virtualities and the external fourth photon in the static limit. The static photon is considered as a background field and we construct a systematic operator product expansion in the presence of this field. We show that the massless quark loop, i.e. the leading term, is numerically dominant over non-perturbative contributions up to next-to-next-to leading order, both those suppressed by quark masses and those that are not.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12123,
  title  = {Short-distance HLbL contributions to the muon g-2},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Nils Hermansson-Truedsson and Laetitia Laub and Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12123},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Proceedings for talk given at 23rd International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD 20), 27 October - 30 October 2020, Montpellier - FR