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Isospin Breaking in Low-Energy Charged Pion and Kaon Elastic Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

We use chiral perturbation theory to evaluate the scattering amplitude for the process Pi^+ K^- to Pi^+ K^- at leading and next-to-leading orders in the chiral counting and in the presence of isospin breaking effects. We also discuss the influence of the latter on the combination of the S-wave Pi K scattering lengths which is relevant for the 2S - 2P energy levels shift of K Pi atoms.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111212,
  title  = {Isospin Breaking in Low-Energy Charged Pion and Kaon Elastic Scattering},
  author = {A. Nehme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111212},
  year   = {2011}
}

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23 pages, LATEX2e, 2 figures, 2 tables