On the effect of excited states in lattice calculations of the nucleon axial charge

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2017.08.017zbMATH Open1373.81425arXiv1610.03843OpenAlexW2545780724MaRDI QIDQ1676144FDOQ1676144

Maxwell T. Hansen, H. Meyer

Publication date: 3 November 2017

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Excited-state contamination is one of the dominant uncertainties in lattice calculations of the nucleon axial-charge, $g_A$. Recently published results in leading-order chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) predict the excited-state contamination to be independent of the nucleon interpolator and positive. However, empirical results from numerical lattice calculations show negative contamination (downward curvature), indicating that present-day calculations are not in the regime where the leading-order ChPT predictions apply. In this paper we show that, under plausible assumptions, one can reproduce the behavior of lattice correlators by taking into account final-state $Npi$ interactions, in particular the effect of the Roper resonance, and by postulating a sign change in the infinite-volume $NoNpi$ axial-vector transition amplitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03843

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Cites Work

• Quantum Field Theory
• Scalar mesons in a finite volume
• Weak transition matrix elements from finite-volume correlation functions
• The Effect of Final State Interactions on Reaction Cross Sections

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• Chiral perturbation theory and nucleon–pion-state contaminations in lattice QCD
• Structure of Nucleon Excited States from Lattice QCD

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