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$\eta-\eta^{\prime}$ Mixing Angle from Vector Meson Radiative Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The octet-singlet ηη\eta -\eta^{\prime} mixing mass term could have a derivative O(p2)O(p^{2}) term as found in recent analysis of the ηη\eta -\eta^{\prime} system. This term gives rise to an additional momentum-dependent pole contribution which is suppressed by a factor mη2/mη2m_{\eta}^{2}/m_{\eta^{\prime}}^{2} for η\eta relative to the η\eta^{\prime} amplitude. The processes with η\eta meson can then be described, to a good approximation, by the momentum-independent mixing mass term which gives rise to a new ηη\eta -\eta^{\prime} mixing angle θP\theta_{P}, like the old ηη\eta -\eta^{\prime} mixing angle used in the past, but a momentum-dependent mixing term dd, like sin(θ0θ8)\sin(\theta_{0}-\theta_{8}) in the two-angle mixing scheme used in the parametrization of the pseudo-scalar meson decay constants in the current literature, is needed to describe the amplitudes with η\eta^{\prime}. In this paper, we obtain sum rules relating θP\theta_{P} and dd to the physical vector meson radiative decays with η\eta and η\eta^{\prime}, as done in our previous work for η\eta meson two-photon decay, and with nonet symmetry for the η\eta^{\prime} amplitude, we obtain a mixing angle θP=(18.76±3.4)\theta_{P}=-(18.76\pm 3.4)^{\circ}, d=0.10±0.03d=0.10\pm 0.03 from ρηγ\rho\to\eta\gamma and ηργ\eta^{\prime}\to\rho\gamma decays, for ω\omega, θP=(15.81±3.1)\theta_{P}=-(15.81\pm 3.1)^{\circ}, d=0.02±0.03d=0.02\pm 0.03, and for ϕ\phi, θP=(13.83±2.1)\theta_{P}=-(13.83\pm 2.1)^{\circ}, d=0.08±0.03d=0.08\pm 0.03. A larger value of 0.06±0.020.06\pm 0.02 for dd is obtained directly from the nonet symmetry expression for the ηωγ\eta^{\prime}\to\omega\gamma amplitude. This indicates that more precise vector meson radiative decay measured branching ratios and higher order SU(3) breaking effects could bring these values for θP\theta_{P} closer and allows a better determination of dd.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1005.5671,
  title  = {$\eta-\eta^{\prime}$ Mixing Angle from Vector Meson Radiative Decays},
  author = {T. N. Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.5671},
  year   = {2015}
}

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