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Title: Longitudinal short-distance constraints for the hadronic light-by-light contribution to (g - 2)μ with large-Nc Regge models

Abstract

While the low-energy part of the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) tensor can be constrained from data using dispersion relations, for a full evaluation of its contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g – 2)μ also mixed- and high-energy regions need to be estimated. Both can be addressed within the operator product expansion (OPE), either for configurations where all photon virtualities become large or one of them remains finite. Imposing such short-distance constraints (SDCs) on the HLbL tensor is thus a major aspect of a model-independent approach towards HLbL scattering. Here, we focus on longitudinal SDCs, which concern the amplitudes containing the pseudoscalar-pole contributions from πo, η, η'. Since these conditions cannot be fulfilled by a finite number of pseudoscalar poles, we consider a tower of excited pseudoscalars, constraining their masses and transition form factors from Regge theory, the OPE, and phenomenology. Implementing a matching of the resulting expressions for the HLbL tensor onto the perturbative QCD quark loop, we are able to further constrain our calculation and significantly reduce its model dependence. We find that especially for the π0 the corresponding increase of the HLbL contribution is much smaller than previous prescriptions in the literature would imply. Overall, we estimate that longitudinal SDCs increase the HLbL contribution by Δa$$^{LSDC}_{μ}$$ = 13(6) × 10-11. This number does not include the contribution from the charm quark, for which we find a$$^{c–quark}_{μ}$$ = 3(1) × 10–11.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Bern (Switzerland). Inst. for Theoretical Physics. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory; Univ. of Bern (Switzerland). Inst. for Theoretical Physics. Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
  3. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1799994
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-00ER41132; SC0009919
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics

Citation Formats

Colangelo, Gilberto, Hagelstein, Franziska, Hoferichter, Martin, Laub, Laetitia, and Stoffer, Peter. Longitudinal short-distance constraints for the hadronic light-by-light contribution to (g - 2)μ with large-Nc Regge models. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2020)101.
Colangelo, Gilberto, Hagelstein, Franziska, Hoferichter, Martin, Laub, Laetitia, & Stoffer, Peter. Longitudinal short-distance constraints for the hadronic light-by-light contribution to (g - 2)μ with large-Nc Regge models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2020)101
Colangelo, Gilberto, Hagelstein, Franziska, Hoferichter, Martin, Laub, Laetitia, and Stoffer, Peter. Tue . "Longitudinal short-distance constraints for the hadronic light-by-light contribution to (g - 2)μ with large-Nc Regge models". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2020)101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1799994.
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abstractNote = {While the low-energy part of the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) tensor can be constrained from data using dispersion relations, for a full evaluation of its contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g – 2)μ also mixed- and high-energy regions need to be estimated. Both can be addressed within the operator product expansion (OPE), either for configurations where all photon virtualities become large or one of them remains finite. Imposing such short-distance constraints (SDCs) on the HLbL tensor is thus a major aspect of a model-independent approach towards HLbL scattering. Here, we focus on longitudinal SDCs, which concern the amplitudes containing the pseudoscalar-pole contributions from πo, η, η'. Since these conditions cannot be fulfilled by a finite number of pseudoscalar poles, we consider a tower of excited pseudoscalars, constraining their masses and transition form factors from Regge theory, the OPE, and phenomenology. Implementing a matching of the resulting expressions for the HLbL tensor onto the perturbative QCD quark loop, we are able to further constrain our calculation and significantly reduce its model dependence. We find that especially for the π0 the corresponding increase of the HLbL contribution is much smaller than previous prescriptions in the literature would imply. Overall, we estimate that longitudinal SDCs increase the HLbL contribution by Δa$^{LSDC}_{μ}$ = 13(6) × 10-11. This number does not include the contribution from the charm quark, for which we find a$^{c–quark}_{μ}$ = 3(1) × 10–11.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep03(2020)101},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
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volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
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