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Dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of the pion

Nuclear Theory 2008-02-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Data on pion polarizabilities obtained in different experiments are reviewed. The values of the dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of the pi^0 and pi^{+-} mesons found are compared with predictions of dispersion sum rules (DSRs) and two-loop calculations in the framework of chiral perturbation theory (ChPT). Possible reasons of a difference between the predictions of DSRs and ChPT are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0965,
  title  = {Dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of the pion},
  author = {L. V. Fil'kov and V. L. Kashevarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0965},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

3 pages, contribution to proceedings of "NSTAR 2007", 5-8 September, Bonn, Germany; typos corrected