Spectral-weight sum rules for the hadronic vacuum polarization

Oct 24, 2022
33 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 3, 034512
  • Published: Feb 1, 2023
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Abstract: (APS)
We develop a number of sum rules comparing spectral integrals involving judiciously chosen weights to integrals over the corresponding Euclidean two-point function. The applications we have in mind are to the hadronic vacuum polarization that determines the most important hadronic correction aμHVP to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. First, we point out how spectral weights may be chosen that emphasize narrow regions in s, providing a tool to investigate emerging discrepancies between data-driven and lattice determinations of aμHVP. Alternatively, for a narrow region around the ρ mass, they may allow for a comparison of the dispersive determination of aμHVP with lattice determinations zooming in on the region of the well-known BABAR-KLOE discrepancy. Second, we show how such sum rules can in principle be used for carrying out precision comparisons of hadronic-τ-decay-based data and e+e-hadrons(γ)-based data, where lattice computations can provide the necessary isospin-breaking corrections.
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  • 33 pages, 5 figures; expanded discussions, version to be published, no changes in results
  • vacuum polarization: hadronic
  • correction: hadronic
  • muon: magnetic moment
  • sum rule
  • lattice
  • spectral
  • two-point function
  • dispersion
  • Euclidean
  • hadron