Pion-pole contribution to hadronic light-by-light scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Abstract

The ${\pi }^0$ pole constitutes the lowest-lying singularity of the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) tensor, and thus provides the leading contribution in a dispersive approach to HLbL scattering in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $(g-2{)}_{\mu }$. It is unambiguously defined in terms of the doubly-virtual pion transition form factor, which in principle can be accessed in its entirety by experiment. We demonstrate that, in the absence of a direct measurement, the full space-like doubly-virtual form factor can be reconstructed very accurately based on existing data for $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to 3\pi$, $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to e^{+}{e}^{-}{\pi }^0$, and the ${\pi }^0\to \gamma \gamma$ decay width. We derive a representation that incorporates all the low-lying singularities of the form factor, matches correctly onto the asymptotic behavior expected from perturbative QCD, and is suitable for the evaluation of the $(g-2{)}_{\mu }$ loop integral. The resulting value, $a_{\mu }^{{\pi }^0\text{-pole}}=62.6_{-2.5}^{+3.0}\times 10^{-11}$, for the first time, represents a complete data-driven determination of the pion-pole contribution with fully controlled uncertainty estimates. In particular, we show that already improved singly-virtual measurements alone would allow one to further reduce the uncertainty in $a_{\mu }^{{\pi }^0\text{-pole}}$.

7 pages, 4 figures; journal version

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