Cristián Villavicencio

arXiv2023

Axial coupling constant in a magnetic background

The nucleon axial coupling constant $g_A$ is calculated in the presence of an external uniform magnetic field using finite energy sum rules. The correlation function of proton, neutron and axial-vector currents is calculated both the hadronic and the QCD sector. Once the axial contribution in the form factor is isolated, a double sum rule is considered, i.e., the usual QCD contour integration for the external moments of both the proton and neutron current. The effects of the external magnetic field come mainly through the in-medium current-nucleon coupling constants $λ_N(B)$ and the hadronic thresholds $s_0(B)$ provided by the nucleon-nucleon correlators. As a result, the axial coupling constant decreases in the presence of the magnetic field.

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arXiv2012

Operator Product Expansion with analytic QCD in tau decay physics

We apply a recently constructed model of analytic QCD in the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) analysis of the tau lepton decay data in the V+A channel. The model has the running coupling A(Q^2) with no unphysical singularities, i.e., it is analytic. It differs from the corresponding perturbative QCD coupling a(Q^2) at high squared momenta |Q^2| by terms ~ 1/(Q^2)^5, hence it does not contradict the ITEP OPE philosophy and can be consistently applied with OPE up to terms of dimension D=8. In evaluations for the Adler function we use a Pade-related renormalization-scale-independent resummation, applicable in any analytic QCD model. Applying the Borel sum rules in the Q^2 plane along rays of the complex Borel scale and comparing with ALEPH data of 1998, we obtain the gluon condensate value <(alpha_s/pi)G^2> = 0.0055 +- 0.0047 GeV^4. Consideration of the D=6 term gives us the result = (-0.5 +- 1.1) 10^{-3} GeV^6, not incompatible with nonnegative values. The real Borel transform gives us then, for the central values of the two condensates, a good agreement with the experimental results in the entire considered interval of the Borel scales M^2. In perturbative QCD in MSbar scheme we deduce similar result for the gluon condensate, 0.0059 +- 0.0049 GeV^4, but the value of D=6 condensate is negative, = (-1.8 +- 0.9) 10^{-3} GeV^6, and the resulting real Borel transform for the central values is close to the lower bound of the experimental band.

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