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Two-photon decay of $\pi^0$ from two-flavor lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2011-04-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the correction to the radiative π0\pi^0 decay width due to finite light quark mass. Using lattice QCD with the overlap fermion formulation, we calculate the three-point function of the form <PVμVν><PV_\mu V_\nu> in the (Euclidean) momentum space, which corresponds to the π0γγ\pi^0\rightarrow \gamma^*\gamma^* amplitude. To fit the lattice data, we use two different modifications of vector meson dominance (VMD) ansatz. One is a combined form of VMD with the next-to-leading order (NLO) chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), and the other is a resummed form of pion-loop diagrams. We extract one of the low energy constants in NLO ChPT, and estimate π0γγ\pi^0\rightarrow \gamma\gamma decay width including finite mass correction.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1102.5544,
  title  = {Two-photon decay of $\pi^0$ from two-flavor lattice QCD},
  author = {E. Shintani and S. Aoki and S. Hashimoto and T. Onogi and N. Yamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5544},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

A contribution to the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice2010, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Italy