Chiral sum rules and duality in QCD

Abstract

The ALEPH data on the vector and axial-vector spectral functions, extracted from tau-lepton decays is used in order to test local and global duality, as well as a set of four QCD chiral sum rules. These are the Das-Mathur-Okubo sum rule, the first and second Weinberg sum rules, and a relation for the electromagnetic pion mass difference. We find these sum rules to be poorly saturated, even when the upper limit in the dispersion integrals is as high as $3Ge{V}^2$. Since perturbative QCD, plus condensates, is expected to be valid for $|q^2|\ge \mathcal{O}$$(1Ge{V}^2)$ in the whole complex energy plane, except in the vicinity of the right hand cut, we propose a modified set of sum rules with weight factors that vanish at the end of the integration range on the real axis. These sum rules are found to be precociously saturated by the data to a remarkable extent. As a byproduct, we extract for the low energy renormalization constant ${\bar{L}}_{10}$ the value $-4{\bar{L}}_{10}=2.43\times 10^{-2}$, to be compared with the standard value $-4{\bar{L}}_{10}=(2.73\pm 0.12)\times 10^{-2}$. This in turn implies a pion polarizability ${\alpha }_E=3.7\times 10^{-4}f{m}^3$.

October 1998. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B. Latex file plus 7 postscript figures

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