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Title: Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2: A Dyson-Schwinger equation approach

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Institute for Nuclear Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Schlossgartenstrasse 9, 64289 Darmstadt (Germany)
  2. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Giessen, 35392 Giessen (Germany)

We determine the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon using the framework of Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations of QCD. Our result for the pseudoscalar ({pi}{sup 0},{eta},{eta}{sup '}) meson-exchange diagram is commensurate with previous calculations. In our calculation of the quark-loop contribution we improve upon previous approaches by explicitly implementing constraints due to gauge invariance. The impact of transverse contributions, presumably dominated by vector-meson poles, are only estimated at this stage. As a consequence, our value a{sub {mu}}{sup LBL;quarkloop}=(136{+-}59)x10{sup -11} is significantly larger. Taken at face value, this then leads to a revised estimate of the total a{sub {mu}=}116 591 891.0(105.0)x10{sup -11}.

OSTI ID:
21541593
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 83, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.094006; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English