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Structure-dependent electromagnetic finite-volume effects through order $1/L^3$

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2023-10-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider electromagnetic finite-volume effects through order 1/L31/L^3 in different formulations of QED, where LL is the periodicity of the spatial volume. An inherent problem at this order is the appearance of structure-dependent quantities related to form factors and the analytical structure of the correlation functions. The non-local constraint of the widely used QEDL_{\textrm{L}} regularization gives rise to structure-dependent effects that are difficult to evaluate analytically and can act as a precision bottleneck in lattice calculations. For this reason, we consider general volume expansions relevant for the mass spectrum as well as leptonic decay rates in QEDC_{\textrm{C}}, QEDL_{\textrm{L}} and QEDLIR_{\textrm{L}}^{\textrm{IR}}, the latter being a class of non-local formulations generalising QEDL_{\textrm{L}}. One choice within this class is QEDr_{\textrm{r}}, first introduced at this conference, and we show that the effects of non-locality for the 1/L31/L^3 term in the expansion can be removed. We observe that there are still 1/L31/L^3 contributions unrelated to the (non-)locality of the studied QED formulations, but rather to collinear singularities in the physical amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2310.13358,
  title  = {Structure-dependent electromagnetic finite-volume effects through order $1/L^3$},
  author = {Matteo Di Carlo and Maxwell T. Hansen and Nils Hermansson-Truedsson and Antonin Portelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13358},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Proceedings The 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), July 31st - August 4th, 2023, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. 7 pages

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