On the renormalization of operator products: the scalar gluonic case

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2016; no. 4; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Author: Zoller, Max F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Constants; Contact; Correlation; Elementary Particles; Insertion; Operators; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Relativity Theory; Scalars; String Theory; Texts; Thermal expansion; Renormalization Group; Perturbative QCD
• ISSN: 1029-8479; 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2016)165

A bstract In this paper we study the renormalization of the product of two operators O 1 = − 1 4 G μ ν G μ ν in QCD. An insertion of two such operators O 1 ( x ) O 1 (0) into a Greens function produces divergent contact terms for x → 0. In the course of the computation of the operator product expansion (OPE) of the correlator of two such operators i ∫ d 4 x e iqx T { O 1 ( x ) O 1 (0)} to three-loop order [1, 2] we discovered that divergent contact terms remain not only in the leading Wilson coefficient C 0 , which is just the VEV of the correlator, but also in the Wilson coefficient C 1 in front of O 1 . As this correlator plays an important role for example in QCD sum rules a full understanding of its renormalization is desireable. This work explains how the divergences encountered in higher orders of an OPE of this correlator should be absorbed in counterterms and derives an additive renormalization constant for C 1 from first principles and to all orders in perturnbation theory. The method to derive the renormalization of this operator product is an extension of the ideas of [3] and can be generalized to other cases.