2010

Chiral logs in twisted mass lattice QCD with large isospin breaking

Bar, Oliver

Understand

The pion masses and the pion decay constant are calculated to 1-loop order in twisted mass Wilson chiral perturbation theory, assuming a large pion mass splitting and tuning to maximal twist.

  • Taking the large mass splitting at leading order in the chiral expansion leads to significant modifications in the chiral logarithms.
  • For example, the result for the charged pion mass contains a chiral logarithm that involves the neutral pion mass instead of the charged one.
  • Similar modifications appear in the results for the neutral pion mass and the decay constant.

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