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Final State Interactions and Khuri-Treiman Equations in $\eta\to 3\pi$ decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Using extended Khuri-Treiman equations, we evaluate the final state interactions due to two-pion rescatterings to the decays ηπ0π+π\eta\to \pi^0 \pi^+ \pi^- and ηπ0π0π0\eta\to \pi^0 \pi^0 \pi^0. As subtraction to the dispersion relation we take the one-loop chiral perturbation theory result of Gasser and Leutwyler. The calculated corrections are moderate and amount to about 14%14\% in the amplitude at the center of the decay region. A careful analysis of the errors inherent to our approach is given. As a consequence, the experimental rate of the decay can only be reproduced if the double quark mass ratio Q2mdmumsm^md+mums+m^Q^{-2}\equiv\frac{m_{d}-m_{u}} {m_{s}-{\hat m}} \cdot\frac{m_{d}+m_{u}}{m_{s}+{\hat m}} is increased from the usual value of 1/(24.1)21/(24.1)^2 to 1/(22.4±0.9)21/(22.4 \pm 0.9)^2. We have also calculated the ratio of the rates of the two decays and various Dalitz Plot parameters. In particular, the linear slope aa in the charged decay is different from the one-loop value and agrees better with experiment.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9509374,
  title  = {Final State Interactions and Khuri-Treiman Equations in $\eta\to 3\pi$ decays},
  author = {J. Kambor and C. Wiesendanger and D. Wyler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9509374},
  year   = {2009}
}

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55 pages, 4 Postscript figures