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We formulate the chiral perturbation theory at the one loop level in the effective lagrangian including the $rho$ meson as a dynamical gauge boson of a hidden local symmetry(HLS). The size of radiative correction to the phenomenological parameter $a$ of HLS is estimated to be about $10$%. The complete list of ${cal O}(E^4)$ terms is given and the one loop counter terms are determined explicitly in the $N$ flavor model. We also obtain matching conditions to the conventional chiral perturbation of Gasser and Leutwyler in the chiral limit in a renormalization scale independent manner. We find that Gasser--Leutwylers estimates for $L_{9,10}$ are saturated by $rho$ and its one loop contributions without introducing non-minimal couplings of $pi$-$rho$ system, suggesting the absence of the tree level $a_1$ meson contributions.
We show that the multicomponent meson systems can be described by chiral perturbation theory. We chiefly focus on a system of two pion gases at different isospin chemical potential, deriving the general expression of the chiral Lagrangian, the ground state properties and the spectrum of the low-energy excitations. We consider two different kinds of interactions between the two meson gases: one which does not lock the two chiral symmetry groups and one which does lock them. The former is a kind of interaction that has already been discussed in mutlicomponent superfluids. The latter is perhaps more interesting, because seems to be related to an instability. Although the pressure of the system does not show any instability, we find that for sufficiently strong locking, the spectrum of one Bogolyubov mode becomes tachyonic. This unstable branch seems to indicate a transition to an inhomogeneous phase.
We discuss the vector meson masses within the context of Chiral Perturbation Theory performing an expansion in terms of the momenta, quark masses and 1/Nc. We extend the previous analysis to include isospin breaking effects and also include up to order $p^4$. We discuss vector meson chiral perturbation theory in some detail and present a derivation from a relativistic lagrangian. The unknown coefficients are estimated in various ways. We also discuss the relevance of electromagnetic corrections and the implications of the present calculation for the determination of quark masses.
A comparison of the linear sigma model (L$sigma$M) and Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) predictions for pion and kaon dynamics is presented. Lowest and next-to-leading order terms in the ChPT amplitudes are reproduced if one restricts to scalar resonance exchange. Some low energy constants of the order $p^4$ ChPT Lagrangian are fixed in terms of scalar meson masses. Present values of these low energy constants are compatible with the L$sigma$M dynamics. We conclude that more accurate values would be most useful either to falsify the L$sigma$M or to show its capability to shed some light on the controversial scalar physics.
We construct the Lorentz-invariant chiral Lagrangians up to the order $mathcal{O}(p^4)$ by including $Delta(1232)$ as an explicit degree of freedom. A full one-loop investigation on processes involving $Delta(1232)$ can be performed with them. For the $piDeltaDelta$ Lagrangian, one obtains 38 independent terms at the order $mathcal{O}(p^3)$ and 318 independent terms at the order $mathcal{O}(p^4)$. For the $pi NDelta$ Lagrangian, we get 33 independent terms at the order $mathcal{O}(p^3)$ and 218 independent terms at the order $mathcal{O}(p^4)$. The heavy baryon projection is also briefly discussed.
We present a comprehensive analysis of form factors for two light pseudoscalar mesons induced by scalar, vector, and tensor quark operators. The theoretical framework is based on a combination of unitarized chiral perturbation theory and dispersion relations. The low-energy constants in chiral perturbation theory are fixed by a global fit to the available data of the two-meson scattering phase shifts. Each form factor derived from unitarized chiral perturbation theory is improved by iteratively applying a dispersion relation. This study updates the existing results in the literature and explores those that have not been systematically studied previously, in particular the two-meson tensor form factors within unitarized chiral perturbation theory. We also discuss the applications of these form factors as mandatory inputs for low-energy phenomena, such as the semi-leptonic decays $B_sto pi^+pi^-ell^+ell^-$ and the $tau$ lepton decay $taurightarrowpi^{-}pi^{0} u_{tau}$, in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.