WW Scattering Parameters via Pseudoscalar Phase Shifts

Jan, 2012
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 85 (2012) 074505
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-12-012-T,
  • LLNL-JRNL-499587

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Using domain-wall lattice simulations, we study pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar scattering in the maximal isospin channel for an SU(3) gauge theory with two and six fermion flavors in the fundamental representation. This calculation of the S-wave scattering length is related to the next-to-leading order corrections to WW scattering through the low-energy coefficients of the chiral Lagrangian. While two and six flavor scattering lengths are similar for a fixed ratio of the pseudoscalar mass to its decay constant, six-flavor scattering shows a somewhat less repulsive next-to-leading order interaction than its two-flavor counterpart. Estimates are made for the WW scattering parameters and the plausibility of detection is discussed.
Note:
  • 8 pages, 6 figures
  • 12.60.Nz
  • 11.15.Ha
  • 11.10.Hi
  • 11.25.Hf
  • higher-order: 1
  • flavor: 6
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • correction: higher-order
  • fermion: domain wall
  • mass: pseudoscalar