Baryon self energies in the chiral loop expansion

Abstract

We compute the self energies of the baryon octet and decuplet states at the one-loop level applying the manifestly covariant chiral Lagrangian. It is demonstrated that expressions consistent with the expectation of power counting rules arise if the self energies are decomposed according to the Passarino-Veltman scheme supplemented by a minimal subtraction. This defines a partial summation of the chiral expansion. A finite renormalization required to install chiral power counting rules leads to the presence of an infrared renormalization scale. Good convergence properties for the chiral loop expansion of the baryon octet and decuplet masses are obtained for natural values of the infrared scale. A prediction for the strange-quark matrix element of the nucleon is made.

36 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables. The revised manuscript contains a proof that given any one-loop integral that arises when computing one-baryon processes it is sufficient to renormalize the scalar master-loop functions of the Passarino-Veltman reduction in a manner that the latter are compatible with the expectation of chiral counting rules

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