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We compute the free energy in the presence of a chemical potential coupled to a conserved charge in effective O(n) scalar field theory (without explicit symmetry breaking terms) to third order for asymmetric volumes in general d-dimensions, using dimensional (DR) and lattice regularizations. This yields relations between the 4-derivative couplings appearing in the effective actions for the two regularizations, which in turn allows us to translate results, e.g. the mass gap in a finite periodic box in d = 3 + 1 dimensions, from one regularization to the other. Consistency is found with a new direct computation of the mass gap using DR. For the case n = 4, d = 4 the model is the low-energy effective theory of QCD with N f = 2 massless quarks. The results can thus be used to obtain estimates of low energy constants in the effective chiral Lagrangian from measurements of the low energy observables, including the low lying spectrum of N f = 2 QCD in the δ-regime using lattice simulations, as proposed by Peter Hasenfratz, or from the susceptibility corresponding to the chemical potential used.
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We dedicate this paper to the memory of Peter Hasenfratz, a great physicist, our good friend and colleague.
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Niedermayer, F., Weisz, P. Matching effective chiral Lagrangians with dimensional and lattice regularizations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 110 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)110
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