https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225806001
Electromagnetic finite-size effects beyond the point-like approximation
1 Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
2 Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
* e-mail: matteo.dicarlo@ed.ac.uk
** e-mail: maxwell.hansen@ed.ac.uk
*** Speaker, e-mail: nils@itp.unibe.ch
**** e-mail: antonin.portelli@ed.ac.uk
Published online: 11 January 2022
We present a model-independent and relativistic approach to analytically derive electromagnetic finite-size effects beyond the point-like approximation. The key element is the use of electromagnetic Ward identities to constrain vertex functions, and structure-dependence appears via physical form-factors and their derivatives. We apply our general method to study the leading finitesize structure-dependence in the pseudoscalar mass (at order 1/L3) as well as in the leptonic decay amplitudes of pions and kaons (at order 1/L2). Knowledge of the latter is essential for Standard Model precision tests in the flavour physics sector from lattice simulations.
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