Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-08-10
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
We study finite-volume effects on the masses of the ground-state octet baryons using covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) up to next-to-leading order by analyzing the latest $n_f=2+1$ lattice Quantum ChromoDynamics (LQCD) results from the NPLQCD collaboration. Contributions of virtual decuplet baryons are taken into account using the "consistent" coupling scheme. We compare our results with those obtained from heavy baryon ChPT and show that, although both approaches can describe well the lattice data, the underlying physics is different: In HBChPT, virtual decuplet baryons play a more important role than they do in covariant ChPT. This is because the virtual octet baryon contributions to finite-volume corrections are larger in covariant ChPT than in HBChPT, while the contributions of intermediate decuplet baryons are smaller, because of relativistic effects. We observe that for the octet baryon masses, at fixed $m_\pi L$ ($\gg1$) finite-volume corrections decrease as $m_\pi$ approaches its physical value, provided that the strange quark mass is at or close to its physical value, as in most LQCD setups.
Geng Li-sheng
Martin-Camalich J.
Ren Xiu-lei
Weise Wolfram
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