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Lepton pair decays of the $K_L$ meson in the light-front model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We analyze KLK_L lepton pair decays of KLl+\lγK_L \to l^+\l^-\gamma and KLl+ll+lK_L \to l^+l^-l'^+l'^- (l,l=e,μ)(l, l'=e, \mu) within the framework of the light-front QCD approach (LFQA). With the KLγγK_L \to \gamma^* \gamma^* form factors evaluated in a model with the LFQA, we calculate the decay branching ratios and find out that our results are all consistent with the experimental data. In addition, we study KLl+lK_L \to l^+l^- decays. We point out that our prediction on KLe+eK_L\to e^+e^- is about 20% smaller than that in the ChPT. We also discuss whether one could extract the short-distance physics from KLμ+μK_L\to \mu^+\mu^-.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112164,
  title  = {Lepton pair decays of the $K_L$ meson in the light-front model},
  author = {C. Q. Geng and C. W. Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112164},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTex, 16 pages, 3 figures; version to appear in PRD