Cumulants of the QCD topological charge distribution

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.07.076zbMATH Open1364.81231arXiv1506.05487OpenAlexW1876549017MaRDI QIDQ2396541FDOQ2396541

Ulf-G. Meißner, Feng-Kun Guo

Publication date: 8 June 2017

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

Abstract: The distribution of the QCD topological charge can be described by cumulants, with the lowest one being the topological susceptibility. The vacuum energy density in a theta-vacuum is the generating function for these cumulants. In this paper, we derive the vacuum energy density in SU(2) chiral perturbation theory up to next-to-leading order keeping different up and down quark masses, which can be used to calculate any cumulant of the topological charge distribution. We also give the expression for the case of SU(N) with degenerate quark masses. In this case, all cumulants depend on the same linear combination of low-energy constants and chiral logarithm, and thus there are sum rules between the N-flavor quark condensate and the cumulants free of next-to-leading order corrections.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05487

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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