Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory to one loop

Abstract

The divergences of the generating functional of quenched Chiral Perturbation theory (qCHPT) to one loop are computed in closed form. We show how the quenched chiral logarithms can be reabsorbed in the renormalization of the $B_0$ parameter of the leading order Lagrangian. Finally, we do the chiral power counting for the quenched case and show that also finite loop corrections may diverge in the chiral limit.