The resonant ${\pi }^{+}\gamma \to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^0$ amplitude from Quantum Chromodynamics

Abstract

We present the first ab initio calculation of a radiative transition of a hadronic resonance within quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We compute the amplitude for $\pi \pi \to \pi {\gamma }^{\star }$, as a function of the energy of the $\pi \pi$ pair and the virtuality of the photon, in the kinematic regime where $\pi \pi$ couples strongly to the unstable $\rho$ resonance. This exploratory calculation is performed using a lattice discretization of QCD with quark masses corresponding to $m_{\pi }\approx 400$~MeV. We obtain a description of the energy dependence of the transition amplitude, constrained at 48 kinematic points, that we can analytically continue to the $\rho$ pole and identify from its residue the $\rho \to \pi {\gamma }^{\star }$ form factor.

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