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3 The vector meson Lagrangian

The leading non anomalous Lagrangian with one vector meson (i.e. of order ) is:

 

and corresponds to the so called Conventional Vector model [3,4].

The parameters which enter the calculation of the vector two-point function are the vector mass and the coupling to the external vector source. The full Lagrangian up to order which gives contribution to and , the vector wave function renormalization constant, (or equivalently to ) is:

 

The first term defines the inverse free fermion propagator . The remaining part defines the local perturbation to the free Lagrangian up to order . There are five terms with new coefficients . Each term can be traced back to the corresponding term in the list (8) where the covariant derivative is defined in terms of the covariant derivative as follows:

The covariant derivative on the vector-like fields is defined as:

The general formula resulting for and and including the leading contribution from the ENJL model can be written as follows:

 

where the wave function renormalization constant is given by:

 

The coefficients must be determined from experimental data. The function is equal to . The are polynomials in the Feynman parameter . Their explicit expression is given by:

 

From eq.(16) one obtains that the purely divergent contribution (i.e. ) to terms is identically zero.

We are left with two independent coefficients: .



Carlos E.Piedrafita