https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20147303006
Chiral-scale perturbation theory about an infrared fixed point
1 CSSM and ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
2 Albert Einstein Centre for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
a e-mail: rcrewthe@physics.adelaide.edu.au
b e-mail: tunstall@itp.unibe.ch
Published online: 9 June 2014
We review the failure of lowest order chiral SU(3)L ×SU(3)R perturbation theory χPT3 to account for amplitudes involving the f0(500) resonance and O(mK) extrapolations in momenta. We summarize our proposal to replace χPT3 with a new effective theory χPTσ based on a low-energy expansion about an infrared fixed point in 3-flavour QCD. At the fixed point, the quark condensate ⟨q̅q⟩vac ≠ 0 induces nine Nambu-Goldstone bosons: π,K,η and a QCD dilaton σ which we identify with the f0(500) resonance. We discuss the construction of the χPTσ Lagrangian and its implications for meson phenomenology at low-energies. Our main results include a simple explanation for the ΔI = 1/2 rule in K-decays and an estimate for the Drell-Yan ratio in the infrared limit.
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