0000000000010407
AUTHOR
P. Post
form factor at order of chiral perturbation theory
Abstract This paper describes the calculation of the electromagnetic form factor of the K 0 meson at order p 6 of chiral perturbation theory which is the next-to-leading order correction to the well-known p 4 result achieved by Gasser and Leutwyler. On the one hand, at order p 6 the chiral expansion contains 1- and 2-loop diagrams which are discussed in detail. Especially, a numerical procedure for calculating the irreducible 2-loop graphs of the sunset topology is presented. On the other hand, the chiral Lagrangian L (6) produces a direct coupling of the K 0 current with the electromagnetic field tensor. Due to this coupling one of the unknown parameters of L (6) occurs in the contribution…
Higher-Order Corrections to Sirlin's Theorem inO(p6)Chiral Perturbation Theory
We present the results of the first two-loop calculation of a form factor in full $\mathrm{SU}(3)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{SU}(3)$ chiral perturbation theory. We choose a specific linear combination of ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}$, ${K}^{+}$, ${K}^{0}$, and $K\ensuremath{\pi}$ form factors (the one appearing in Sirlin's theorem) which does not get contributions from order ${p}^{6}$ operators with unknown constants. For the charge radii, the corrections to the previous one-loop result turn out to be significant. To clearly identify the two-loop effects, more accurate measurements of the kaon and pion electromagnetic charge radii would be desirable.
The sunset diagram in SU(3) chiral perturbation theory
A general procedure for the calculation of a class of two-loop Feynman diagrams is described. These are two-point functions containing three massive propagators, raised to integer powers, in the denominator, and arbitrary polynomials of the loop momenta in the numerator. The ultraviolet divergent parts are calculated analytically, while the remaining finite parts are obtained by a one-dimensional numerical integration, both below and above the threshold. Integrals of this type occur, for example, in chiral perturbation theory at order p^6.