The amplitude and the resonant transition from lattice QCD
Apr 12, 2016
20 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 93 (2016) 11, 114508,
- Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 079902 (erratum)
- Published: Jun 10, 2016
e-Print:
- 1604.03530 [hep-ph]
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.114508 (publication),
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.079902 (erratum)
Report number:
- JLAB-THY-16-2237,
- DAMTP-2016-24
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Abstract: (APS)
We present a determination of the P-wave ππ→πγ⋆ transition amplitude from lattice quantum chromodynamics. Matrix elements of the vector current in a finite volume are extracted from three-point correlation functions, and from these we determine the infinite-volume amplitude using a generalization of the Lellouch-Lüscher formalism. We determine the amplitude for a range of discrete values of the ππ energy and virtuality of the photon and observe the expected dynamical enhancement due to the ρ resonance. Describing the energy dependence of the amplitude, we are able to analytically continue into the complex energy plane and from the residue at the ρ pole extract the ρ→πγ⋆ transition form factor. This calculation, at mπ≈400 MeV, is the first to determine the form factor of an unstable hadron within a first principles approach to QCD.Note:
- 20 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables
- quantum chromodynamics: lattice
- pi pi: scattering amplitude
- photon: production
- photon: off-shell
- photon: virtual
- rho(770): form factor
- form factor: transition
- off-shell
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