Chiral Perturbation Theory: Expansions in the Mass of the Strange Quark

Jan, 1984
52 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 250 (1985) 465-516
  • Published: 1985
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-3798

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
In a previous paper, we have shown how to systematically determine the low-energy structure of the Green functions in QCD. The present article extends this framework to expansions in the mass of the strange quark. We construct the generating functional of U(3)×U(3) which allows us to calculate the Green functions up to and including terms of order p 4 (at fixed radio m quark p 2 ) in terms of a few coupling constants which chiral symmetry leaves undetermined. We calculate the first non-leading term in the quark mass expansion of the order parameters 〈0| u u|0〉, 〈0| d d|0〉, 〈0| s s|0〉 , and of the masses and decay constants in the pseudoscalar octet. The three coupling constants which are not fixed by experimental low-energy information are estimated by invoking large- N c arguments.
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
  • SYMMETRY: CHIRAL
  • PERTURBATION THEORY: HIGHER-ORDER
  • FIELD THEORY: LOW-ENERGY THEOREM
  • QUARK: STRANGENESS
  • QUARK: MASS
  • MASS: QUARK
  • SYMMETRY: U(3) X U(3)
  • N-POINT FUNCTION
  • PSEUDOSCALAR MESON: MULTIPLET
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