Time Dependence of Nucleon Correlation Functions in Chiral Perturbation Theory

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2009-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0657v3

Phys.Rev.D80:014002,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

12 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.014002

We consider corrections to nucleon correlation functions arising from times that are far from the asymptotic limit. For such times, the single nucleon state is contaminated by the pion-nucleon and pion-delta continuum. We use heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory to derive the spectral representation of the nucleon two-point function. Finite time corrections to the axial current correlation function are also derived. Pion-nucleon excited state contributions drive the axial correlator upward, while contributions from the interference of pion-delta and pion-nucleon states drive the axial correlator downward. Our results can be compared qualitatively to optimized nucleon correlators calculated in lattice QCD, because the chiral corrections characterize only low-energy excitations above the ground state. We show that improved nucleon operators can lead to an underestimation of the nucleon axial charge.

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