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A Dispersive Treatment of $K_{\ell4}$ Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

K4K_{\ell4} decays offer several reasons of interest: they allow an accurate measurement of ππ\pi\pi-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 K4K_{\ell4} decays that provides a resummation of ππ\pi\pi- and KπK\pi-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 L1rL_1^r, L2rL_2^r and L3rL_3^r. With recently published data from NA48/2, the LEC L9rL_9^r 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]