We study the correction to the radiative π0 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> in the (Euclidean) momentum space, which corresponds to the π0→γ∗γ∗ 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 π0→γγ decay width including finite mass correction.
@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