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4 Phenomenology of the Vector-Vector correlation function

To estimate the values of the coefficients we study the behaviour of the vector-vector correlation function where one can compare the theoretical predictions with experimental results.

The two-point vector correlation function is defined as

where is the flavoured vector quark current:

with the Gell-Mann matrices normalized as . Lorentz covariance and invariance imply for the the following structure:

where , with euclidean. is zero at all orders in the chiral limit. For the following expression holds at NPLL order [1]:

 

where the running of and at NPLL order can be extracted from eq. (14) with terms set to zero.

The real part of the invariant function is related to its imaginary part through a standard dispersion relation

For a review on QCD spectral Sum rules and the calculation of QCD two-point Green's functions see [5]. The imaginary part is given in terms of the experimentally known total hadronic ratio of the annihilation in the isovector channel

with

We have performed a comparison between the QR model parametrization (20), valid in the energy region , and the prediction obtained from a modelization of the experimental data on [6] in the channel with the meson quantum numbers (I=1, J=1). For a determination of the function in the high region (i.e. beyond the cutoff ) see [7].

We adopted the following parametrization of the experimental hadronic isovector ratio:

 

This is a generalization of the one proposed in ref. [8], where corrections due to the finite width of the rho meson have not been included. KeV is the width and is the total widht of the neutral [9]. We used the leading logarithmic approximation for :

Expression (24) includes a dependence of the channel upon the width and the contribution from the continuum starting at a threshold [8]. For the running of we used a value of 260 MeV for , according to the average experimental value MeV [9] and with flavours.

The results are practically insensitive to the running corrections and our leading log approximation turns out to be adequate.

To extract information on coefficients of the NTL logarithmic corrections we made a best fit of the first derivative of the 2-point function coming from the parametrization (24) of the experimental data:

where the derivative of the VV function in the QR model is given by:

 

We have used MeV for the IR cutoff and GeV for the UV cutoff, determined by a global fit in ref. [2].

In fig.(1) we show the behaviour of the derivative of the experimental 2-point function, the curve from the best fit, which has been done in the region: GeV, and the derivative of the ENJL prediction with quark-bubbles resummation.

 
Figure 1:   The derivative of the experimental vector invariant function (solid line) the curve from the best fit in the region GeV (dashed line) and the ENJL prediction (dot-dashed line).

The best values of the two free coefficients are

 

The of the fit has been defined as and the are defined assuming a of uncertainty on the experimental data. A has been obtained. The ENJL prediction differs by roughly a from the experimental curve at 0.8 GeV. Most of this discrepancy can be accounted for with the corrections that we have calculated.

The invariant function obtained from the best fit automatically match the ENJL function at , because we have normalized the corrections to vanish at :

 

The function obtained with the values (28) and with the matching of eq. (29) is plotted in fig.(2) and compared with the ENJL prediction (i.e. including the resummation of linear chains of quark bubbles and including only logarithmic corrections).

 
Figure 2:   from the QR model (dashed line), obtained from the fitted derivative of fig. (1) by imposing the matching with the ENJL function at , versus from the ENJL model (solid line).

The difference between the two curves reaches a at 0.7 GeV.



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Carlos E.Piedrafita