Coulomb corrections to pi-pi scattering

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method to incorporate Coulomb interactions into finite-volume lattice QCD calculations of pi-pi scattering, enabling more accurate QED corrections for kaon decay studies.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach to include truncated Coulomb interactions in finite-volume lattice QCD and restore full results via an infinite-volume analytic correction.

Findings

Method successfully incorporates Coulomb effects in lattice calculations.

Allows calculation of QED-corrected pi-pi phase shifts.

Reduces finite-volume errors in scattering phase shift determination.

Abstract

The relationship between finite volume multi-hadron energy levels and matrix elements and two particle scattering phase shifts and decays is well known, but the inclusion of long range interactions such as QED is non-trivial. Inclusion of QED is an important systematic error correction to $K\to\pi\pi$ decays. In this talk, we present a method of including a truncated, finite-range Coulomb interaction in a finite-volume lattice QCD calculation. We show how the omission caused by the truncation can be restored by an infinite-volume analytic calculation so that the final result contains no power-law finite-volume errors beyond those usually present in Luscher's finite-volume phase shift determination. This approach allows us to calculate the QED corrected infinite-volume phase shift for $\pi\pi$ scattering in Coulomb gauge, a necessary ingredient to $K\to\pi\pi$, while neglecting the transverse radiation for now.