Renormalization group, trace anomaly and Feynman-Hellmann theorem

TL;DR

This paper establishes a connection between the derivatives of gauge couplings and hadronic properties via trace anomaly and renormalization group techniques, providing new ways to define gluon condensates and explore cosmological implications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach linking gauge coupling derivatives to gluon condensates using renormalization group equations and trace anomaly, bypassing divergence issues.

Findings

Relations between gauge coupling derivatives and gluon condensates derived.

Potential to define gluon condensates free from power divergences.

Implications for understanding QCD phase transition contributions to the cosmological constant.

Abstract

We show that the logarithmic derivative of the gauge coupling on the hadronic mass and the cosmological constant term of a gauge theory are related to the gluon condensate of the hadron and the vacuum respectively. These relations are akin to Feynman-Hellmann relations whose derivation for the case at hand are complicated by the construction of the gauge theory Hamiltonian. We bypass this problem by using a renormalisation group equation for composite operators and the trace anomaly. The relations serve as possible definitions of the gluon condensates themselves which are plagued in direct approaches by power divergences. In turn these results might help to determine the contribution of the QCD phase transition to the cosmological constant and test speculative ideas.