https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14148-5
Regular Article
The unobservable axial-pion mixing in QCD and near-conformal dynamics
Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-000140, Helsinki, Finland
* e-mail: roshan.foadi@gmail.com
Received:
17
March
2014
Revised:
3
June
2014
Accepted:
5
June
2014
Published online:
10
July
2014
We study a chiral quark model of π, σ, ρ, and a
1 mesons in the large-N
c
limit. We show that the quadratic a
1 − π mixing can be set to zero at zero momentum, thus protecting the g
σππ
and g
ρππ
couplings from being contaminated by the corresponding vertices with one or both pions replaced by the axial-vector meson. We further require the chiral-quark Lagrangian to feature an approximate classical scale invariance, the latter being only broken by dimension-two mass terms, and that the longitudinal vector meson scattering amplitudes grow at most like s, where √s is the center-of-mass energy. This allows us to accurately predict the correct value of g
σππ
, g
ρππ
, and the a
1 decay constant . We further show that strongly coupled theories with near-conformal dynamics are expected to feature an approximate custodial chiral symmetry, with interesting phenomenological consequences.
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