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The Mesonic Chiral Lagrangian of Order $p^6$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

We construct the effective chiral Lagrangian for chiral perturbation theory in the mesonic even-intrinsic-parity sector at order p6p^6. The Lagrangian contains 112 in principle measurable + 3 contact terms for the general case of nn light flavours, 90+4 for three and 53+4 for two flavours. The equivalence between equations of motion and field redefinitions to remove spurious terms in the Lagrangians is shown to all orders in the chiral expansion. We also discuss and implement other methods for reducing the number of terms to a minimal set.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902437,
  title  = {The Mesonic Chiral Lagrangian of Order $p^6$},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Gilberto Colangelo and Gerhard Ecker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902437},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

21 pages, uses longtable.sty, one more contact term found, extensive renumbering of 3 flavour terms