A Dispersive Treatment of $K_{\ell4}$ Decays
Abstract
decays offer several reasons of interest: they allow an accurate measurement of -scattering lengths; they provide the best source for the determination of some low-energy constants of ChPT; one form factor is directly related to the chiral anomaly, which can be measured here. We present a dispersive treatment of decays that provides a resummation of - and -rescattering effects. The free parameters of the dispersion relation are fitted to the data of the high-statistics experiments E865 and NA48/2. The matching to ChPT at NLO and NNLO enables us to determine the LECs , and . With recently published data from NA48/2, the LEC can be determined as well. In contrast to a pure chiral treatment, the dispersion relation describes the observed curvature of one of the form factors, which we understand as a rescattering effect beyond NNLO.
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@article{arxiv.1501.05627,
title = {A Dispersive Treatment of $K_{\ell4}$ Decays},
author = {Gilberto Colangelo and Emilie Passemar and Peter Stoffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05627},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
86 pages, 21 figures. Draws on and extends arXiv:1412.5171 [hep-ph] and arXiv:1209.0755 [hep-ph]