Dual QCD Insight into BSM Hadronic Matrix Elements for $K^0-\bar K^0$ Mixing from Lattice QCD

TL;DR

This paper uses the Dual QCD approach to analyze BSM hadronic matrix elements for $K^0-ar K^0$ mixing, demonstrating the importance of meson evolution in understanding lattice QCD results and non-leptonic transitions.

Contribution

It provides an analytic framework within DQCD to reproduce lattice QCD findings on BSM matrix elements, emphasizing the role of meson evolution in non-leptonic processes.

Findings

Meson evolution explains lattice QCD matrix element patterns.

Non-perturbative meson evolution is essential for accurate phenomenology.

DQCD uniquely captures QCD dynamics in non-leptonic transitions.

Abstract

We calculate BSM hadronic matrix elements for $K^0-\bar K^0$ mixing in the Dual QCD approach (DQCD). The ETM, SWME and RBC-UKQCD lattice collaborations find the matrix elements of the BSM density-density operators $\mathcal{O}_i$ with $i=2-5$ to be rather different from their vacuum insertion values (VIA) with $B_2\approx 0.5$, $B_3\approx B_5\approx 0.7$ and $B_4\approx 0.9$ at $\mu=3~GeV$ to be compared with $B_i=1$ in the VIA. We demonstrate that this pattern can be reconstructed within the DQCD through the non-perturbative meson evolution from very low scales, where factorization of matrix elements is valid, to scales of order $(1~GeV)$ with subsequent perturbative quark-gluon evolution to $\mu=3~GeV$. This turns out to be possible in spite of a very different pattern displayed at low scales with $B_2=1.2$, $B_3=3.0$, $B_4=1.0$ and $B_5\approx 0.2$ in the large $N$ limit, $N$ being the number of colours. Our results imply that the inclusion of meson evolution in the phenomenology of any non-leptonic transition like $K^0-\bar K^0$ mixing and $K\to\pi\pi$ decays is mandatory. While meson evolution, as demonstrated in our paper, is hidden in LQCD results, to our knowledge DQCD is the only analytic approach for non-leptonic transitions and decays which takes this important QCD dynamics into account.