Mellin-Barnes approach to hadronic vacuum polarization and gμ2g_{\mu}-2

Dec 6, 2017
23 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 97 (2018) 7, 076014
  • Published: May 1, 2018
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Abstract: (APS)
It is shown that with a precise determination of a few derivatives of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) self-energy function Π(Q2) at Q2=0, from lattice QCD (LQCD) or from a dedicated low-energy experiment, one can obtain an evaluation of the lowest order HVP contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon aμHVP with an accuracy comparable to the one reached using the e+e- annihilation cross section into hadrons. The technique of Mellin-Barnes approximants (MBa) that we propose is illustrated in detail with the example of the two loop vacuum polarization function in QED. We then apply it to the first few moments of the hadronic spectral function obtained from experiment and show that the resulting MBa evaluations of aμHVP converge very quickly to the full experimental determination.
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  • 37 pages, many figures. V2: Numerical results updated according to arXiv:1802.02995v1. V3: Published version with improvements suggested by the referee, conclusions unchanged
  • muon: magnetic moment
  • magnetic moment: anomaly
  • quantum electrodynamics: vacuum polarization
  • vacuum polarization: hadronic
  • vacuum polarization: correction
  • quantum electrodynamics: correction
  • correction: higher-order
  • higher-order: 2
  • quantum chromodynamics: lattice