Finite-volume effects in $(g-2{)}_{\mu }^{\text{HVP,LO}}$

Abstract

An analytic expression is derived for the leading finite-volume effects arising in lattice QCD calculations of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the muon's magnetic moment, $a_{\mu }^{\text{HVP,LO}}\equiv (g-2{)}_{\mu }^{\text{HVP,LO}}/2$. For calculations in a finite spatial volume with periodicity $L$, $a_{\mu }^{\text{HVP,LO}}(L)$ admits a transseries expansion with exponentially suppressed $L$ scaling. Using a Hamiltonian approach, we show that the leading finite-volume correction scales as $\exp [-M_{\pi }L]$ with a prefactor given by the (infinite-volume) Compton amplitude of the pion, integrated with the muon-mass-dependent kernel. To give a complete quantitative expression, we decompose the Compton amplitude into the space-like pion form factor, $F_{\pi }(Q^2)$, and a multi-particle piece. We determine the latter through NLO in chiral perturbation theory and find that it contributes negligibly and through a universal term that depends only on the pion decay constant, with all additional low-energy constants dropping out of the integral.

Comments: 5 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, CERN-TH-2019-051, v2: Matches the published version. Fixed a sign mistake in a numerically suppressed contribution