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The light-by-light contribution from the lightest neutral pseudoscalar and scalar mesons to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon is calculated in the framework of the nonlocal SU(3)×SU(3) quark model. The model is based on chirally symmetric four-quark interaction of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio type and Kobayashi–Maskawa–’t Hooft U A (1) breaking six-quark interaction. Full kinematic dependence of vertices with off-shell mesons and photons in intermediate states in the light-by-light scattering amplitude is taken into account. The small positive contributions from the scalar mesons stabilize the total result with respect to change of model parameters and reduces to \(a_{\mu}^{\mathrm{LbL},\mathrm{PS}+\mathrm{S}}=(6.25\pm0.83)\cdot10^{-10}\).
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We consider the isospin limit m c,u =m c,d ≠m c,s .
Through the paper capital letters will be used for Euclidean momenta, small letters for Minkowski momenta.
Such a description of the light scalar mesons as \(\bar {q}q\)-states is probably simplified. It seems that it is necessary to include other structures, e.g., four-quark states (see, e.g., [28]). However, the present model is formulated in the leading order of the 1/N c expansion and our calculations are consistent within given approximation. Moreover, the scalar mesons participate in the processes under consideration only as intermediate states, being far from mass-shell.
For the pion exchange contribution, the coefficient of the leading, log2(M ρ /m μ ), term in (m μ /M ρ )2 expansion was found in [35].
Namely, varying the mass parameter values for the ρ-meson, muon and difference between the pion and muon masses squared, one can extract different terms of the expansions given in [33].
Similar consideration was used in [25] for the investigation of 1/N c corrections.
We rescale current quark masses in order to reproduce mass of neutral pion instead of charged one.
\(m^{\mathrm{NJL}}_{c,u}=5.69\mbox{~MeV}\), \(m^{\mathrm{NJL}}_{d,u}=253.9\mbox{~MeV}\), \(\varLambda^{\mathrm {NJL}}_{q}=800\mbox{~MeV}\).
\(m^{\mathrm{N}\chi \mathrm{QM}}_{c,u}=5.45\mbox{~MeV}\), \(m^{\mathrm{ N}\chi \mathrm{QM}}_{d,u}=255.8\mbox{~MeV}\), Λ NχQM=902.4 MeV.
In the case of pseudoscalar mesons, the diagrams in Figs. 6d–g give a zero contribution due to chirality considerations
\(B_{i} ( p^{2};q_{1}^{2} ,q_{2}^{2} )\) is divergent in this kinematic.
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We thank M. Buballa, Yu.M. Bystritskiy, C. Fischer, N.I. Kochelev, E.A. Kuraev, V.P. Lomov, B.-J. Schaefer, and R. Williams for critical remarks and illuminating discussions. A.E.D. and A.E.R. are grateful for the hospitality during visits at the TU Darmstadt.
This work is supported in part by the Heisenberg–Landau program (JINR), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects No. 10-02-00368 and No. 11-02-00112), the Federal Target Program Research and Training Specialists in Innovative Russia 2009–2013 (16. 740.11.0154, 14.B37.21.0910).
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Appendices
Appendix A: Four-quark coupling constants, polarization operators and mixing angles
The elements of G ch -matrices take the form
where the upper sign corresponds to the scalar channel, while the lower sign corresponds to the pseudoscalar channel. For the pion, G π equals G 33 of the pseudoscalar interaction, and, for the a 0-meson, \(G_{a_{0}}\) equals G 33 of the scalar interaction.
The elements of \(\mathrm{\varPi}_{\mathit{ch}}(P^{2})\)-matrix for the scalar and pseudoscalar mesons are diagonal in the quark-flavor basis, and in the singlet-triplet-octet basis they are given by
where the difference between the scalar and pseudoscalar channels is in the polarization operators
where K ±=K±P/2. Similarly to Eq. (A.1), the upper sign corresponds to the scalar channel and the lower sign corresponds to the pseudoscalar channel, \(\varPi_{a_{0}}\) equals Π 33 for the scalar channel and Π π equals Π 33 for the pseudoscalar channel. The unrenormalized mesonic propagators for the scalar mesons are
The mixing angle depends on the meson virtuality
Expressions for the unrenormalized propagators for the pseudoscalar mesons are similar to the scalar meson propagators, Eqs. (A.4), (A.5), with replacements a 0→π, σ→η, f 0→η′ and θ S →θ P .
Appendix B: Feynman rules for nonlocal vertices
The total vertex of photon interaction with quark–antiquark pair (Fig. 4a) contains local and nonlocal parts
where T a≡Q and m(1)(p 1,p 2) is the first order finite-difference of the dynamical quark mass
The contact interaction vertex of meson, photon and quark–antiquark pair (Fig. 4b) is purely nonlocal and takes the form
In order to express the vertices with two external photons we introduce the following functions:
where f(2)(k 1,k 2,k 3) is the second order finite-difference
With this notation, the vertex of two-photon interaction with quark–antiquark pair (Fig. 5a) is
and the interaction vertex for two photons, meson and quark–antiquark pair (Fig. 5b) becomes
Appendix C: Amplitude with meson and two photons
The photon–meson transition amplitude is a sum of diagrams shown in Fig. 6, where all particles are virtual. For the scalar meson it takes the form
where the symbols are the photon momenta q 1,2, the photon polarization vectors ϵ 1,2, the meson momentum p=q 1+q 2, and the quark momenta k 1,2,3 (k 1=k+q 1, k 2=k−q 2, k 3=k). The first term in parentheses corresponds to the quark triangle diagramsFootnote 10 (Fig. 6b and crossed term Fig. 6c) and next terms corresponds to the diagrams in Figs. 6d–g with effective nonlocal vertices defined in (B.3), (B.6), (B.7).
For different scalar meson states one has the following combinations of nonstrange and strange components:
One can easily see from Eqs. (17), (18) that the mixing for the form factors A S , B S , \(\mathrm{B}^{\prime}_{S}\) from the components A u , B u , \(B^{\prime}_{u}\) and A s , B s , \(B^{\prime}_{s}\) is similar. One should project A i and B i (i=u,s) from loops of nonstrange and strange quarks
where
and different terms in brackets, J μν, correspond to the diagrams shown in Figs. 6, with lower indices being the symbol of the figure.
Below for simplicity, a momentum is denoted as a lower index and a quark-flavor index i is omitted:
Then, one has
where
and
Analytical expressions for the form factors \(A_{i} ( p^{2};q_{1}^{2} ,q_{2}^{2} )\) and \(B_{i}^{\prime}( p^{2};q_{1}^{2} ,q_{2}^{2} )\) in the case of special kinematics,Footnote 11 when one photon is real, \(q_{1}^{2}=0\), and the virtuality of second photon is equal to the virtuality of meson \(p_{2}^{2}=q_{2}^{2}\), can be obtained by expanding the quark-loop expressions, Eqs. (C.3), (C.4), (C.5), in \(q_{1}^{2}\). The resulting expressions contain derivatives of the nonlocal function f(k 2) up to third order. These expressions are rather cumbersome and not presented here. Alternatively, one can calculate the form factors for small but nonzero \(q_{1}^{2}\) and then take the limit numerically.
Appendix D: Local limit of γ ∗ γ ∗→S ∗ amplitude
In the local model with constituent quark masses m i , the triangle quark-loop diagrams, depicted in Figs. 6b–c, reduce to the following expression:
where \(I_{\mathrm{g}}(m_{i}^{2})\) is a gauge non-invariant term (constant)
which should be eliminated by suitable regularization, e.g., the Pauli–Villars regularization \(I_{\mathrm{g}}(m_{i}^{2})-I_{\mathrm {g}}(\varLambda_{\mathrm{PV}}^{2})=0\), and the form factors read
Note that, if one takes the local limit of the nonlocal expression Eq. (C.3) by setting Λ→∞, the contribution of nonlocal diagrams completely cancel a gauge non-invariant term.
For special kinematics considered above, the form factors become \((\bar {x} = 1-x)\)
Appendix E: Tensor structures for LbL amplitude
Functions averaged over muon momenta can be represented as
where 〈A〉 j are the averages of scalar products with muon momentum in the numerator and muon propagators in the denominator (\(\mathrm{D}_{1}= (P+Q_{1} )^{2}+m_{\mu}^{2}\), \(\mathrm{D}_{2}= (P-Q_{2} )^{2}+\nobreak m_{\mu}^{2}\))
m μ is the muon mass \(( P^{2}=-m_{\mu}^{2} ) \) and
\(Z^{\mathrm{XY}}_{\mathbf{i},j}\) are polynomials in the photon momenta:
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Dorokhov, A.E., Radzhabov, A.E. & Zhevlakov, A.S. The light-by-light contribution to the muon (g-2) from lightest pseudoscalar and scalar mesons within nonlocal chiral quark model. Eur. Phys. J. C 72, 2227 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2227-3
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