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Leading logarithms for the nucleon mass

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-20 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Within the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory approach, we have studied the leading logarithm behaviour of the nucleon mass up to four-loop order exactly and we present some results up to six-loop order as well as an all-order conjecture. The same methods allow to calculate the main logarithm multiplying the terms with fractional powers of the quark mass. We calculate thus the coefficients of m2n+1log(n1)(μ2/m2)m^{2n+1}\log^{(n-1)}(\mu^2/m^2) and m2n+2logn(μ2/m2)m^{2n+2}\log^n(\mu^2/m^2), with mm the lowest-order pion mass. A side result is the leading divergence for a general heavy baryon loop integral.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6127,
  title  = {Leading logarithms for the nucleon mass},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Alexey A. Vladimirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6127},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24p, misprints corrected, some minor reformulations

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