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Problems with the Quenched Approximation in the Chiral Limit

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the quenched approximation, loops of the light singlet meson (the η\eta') give rise to a type of chiral logarithm absent in full QCD. These logarithms are singular in the chiral limit throwing doubt upon the utility of the quenched approximation. In previous work, I summed a class of diagrams, leading to non-analytic power dependencies such as \condmqδ/(1+δ)\cond\propto m_q^{-\delta/(1+\delta)}. I suggested, however, that these peculiar results could be redefined away. Here I give an alternative derivation of the results, based on the renormalization group, and argue that they cannot be redefined away. I discuss the evidence (or lack thereof) for such effects in numerical data.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9211005,
  title  = {Problems with the Quenched Approximation in the Chiral Limit},
  author = {Stephen Sharpe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9211005},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

(talk given at Lattice '92), 4 pages latex, 3 postscript figures, uses espcr2.sty and psfig.tex (all included) UW/PT-92-20

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