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The Massive O(N) Non-linear Sigma Model at High Orders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We extend our earlier work on the massive O(N)O(N) nonlinear sigma model to other observables. We derive expressions at leading order in the large NN expansion at all orders in the loop expansion for the decay constant, vacuum expectation value, meson-meson scattering and the scalar and vector form factors. This is done using cactus diagram resummation using a generalized gap equation and other recursion relations. For general NN we derive the expressions for the nn-th loop order leading logarithms (M2/F2log(μ2/M2))n\left(M^2/F^2\log(\mu^2/M^2)\right)^n, up to five-loops for the decay constant and vacuum expectation value (VEV) and up to four-loops for meson-meson scattering, the scalar and vector form factors. We also quote our earlier result for the mass. The large NN results do not give a good approximation for the case N=3N=3. We use our results to study the convergence of the perturbative series and compare with elastic unitarity.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3499,
  title  = {The Massive O(N) Non-linear Sigma Model at High Orders},
  author = {Johan Bijnens and Lisa Carloni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3499},
  year   = {2011}
}

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39 pages

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