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Two-photon decay of \$\pi^0\$ from two-flavor lattice QCD

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(Apr 2, 2011)

Abstract

We study the correction to the radiative \$\pi^0\$ decay width due to finite light quark mass. Using lattice QCD with the overlap fermion formulation, we calculate the three-point function of the form \$<PV\_V\_\nu>\$ in the (Euclidean) momentum space, which corresponds to the \$\pi^0\rightarrow \gamma^*\gamma^*\$ amplitude. To fit the lattice data, we use two different modifications of vector meson dominance (VMD) ansatz. One is a combined form of VMD with the next-to-leading order (NLO) chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), and the other is a resummed form of pion-loop diagrams. We extract one of the low energy constants in NLO ChPT, and estimate \$\pi^0\gamma\gamma\$ decay width including finite mass correction.

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