An Analytic Analysis of the Pion Decay Constant in Three-Flavoured Chiral Perturbation Theory

Abstract

A representation of the two-loop contribution to the pion decay constant in $SU(3)$ chiral perturbation theory is presented. The result is analytic upto the contribution of the three (different) mass sunset integrals, for which an expansion in their external momentum has been taken. We also give an analytic expression for the two-loop contribution to the pion mass based on a renormalized representation and in terms of the physical eta mass. We find an expansion of $F_{\pi }$ and $M_{\pi }^2$ in the strange quark mass in the isospin limit, and perform the matching of the chiral SU(2) and SU(3) low energy constants. A numerical analysis demonstrates the high accuracy of our representation, and the strong dependence of the pion decay constant upon the values of the low energy constants, especially in the chiral limit. Finally, we present a simplified representation that is particularly suitable for fitting with available lattice data.

34 pages, plain latex, 5 figures; v2 is the version that was published, with further corrections in Eqs. (84) [normalization],(87) and (91) [missing lines inserted] of the published version. Compared to v1, minor changes to the text and typos removed, the notation updated in section 5, new section 7 on lattice fits

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