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Title: Axial couplings in heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory at the next-to-leading order

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

We present results for axial-current matrix elements between various heavy-meson and baryon states to the next-to- leading order in heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory in the p-regime. When compared with data from lattice simulations or experiments, these results can be used to determine the axial couplings in the chiral Lagrangian. Our calculation is performed in partially-quenched chiral perturbation theory for both SU(4|2) and SU(6|3) cases. We incorporate finite-size effects arising from a single Goldstone meson wrapping around the spatial volume. Results for full QCD with two and three flavours can be obtained straightforwardly by taking the sea-quark masses to be equal to the valence-quark masses. We also present one-loop results relevant to the heavy hadron strong-decay amplitudes involving final-state Goldstone bosons.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1029186
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-11-1412; DOE/OR/23177-1748; arXiv:1108.5594; PRVDAQ; TRN: US1105656
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 84, Issue 9; ISSN 1550-7998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English