One-loop matching of $CP$-odd four-quark operators to the gradient-flow scheme

Understand

The translation of experimental limits on the neutron electric dipole moment into constraints on heavy $CP$-violating physics beyond the Standard Model requires knowledge about non-perturbative matrix elements of effective operators, which ideally should be computed in lattice QCD.

• However, this necessitates a matching calculation as an interface to the effective field theory framework, which is based on dimensional regularization and renormalization by minimal subtraction.
• We calculate the one-loop matching between the gradient-flow and minimal-subtraction schemes for the $CP$-violating four-quark operators contributing to the neutron electric dipole moment.
• The gradient flow is a modern regularization-independent scheme amenable to lattice computations that promises, e.g., better control over power divergences than traditional momentum-subtraction schemes.