Charged Hadron Properties in Background Electric Fields

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new lattice calculation method to determine the electric polarizability of charged pseudo-scalar mesons using two-point correlation functions in background electric fields.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel approach for extracting charged meson polarizabilities from lattice QCD simulations with background electric fields.

Findings

Successful demonstration of the method on lattice data

Accurate extraction of meson electric polarizability values

Potential for application to other hadronic properties

Abstract

We report on a lattice calculation demonstrating a novel new method to extract the electric polarizability of charged pseudo-scalar mesons by analyzing two point correlation functions computed in classical background electric fields.