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On the two-photon contributions to $e^+e^-\to\eta\gamma$ and $e^+e^-\to\eta^\prime\gamma$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Motivated by recent BABAR measurements of the γγη\gamma^*\to\gamma \eta and γγη\gamma^*\to\gamma \eta^\prime transition form factors, we estimate two-photon exchange contributions to the corresponding cross sections. By using a phenomenological model, based on the vector meson dominance, it is argued that the expected contributions are small enough not to effect the BABAR results. As a by product we predict Br(ημ+μ)=(1.4±0.2)×107Br(\eta^\prime\to\mu^+\mu^-)= (1.4\pm 0.2)\times 10^{-7}. Our results might be useful also in high precision calculations of radiative corrections to the Dalitz decays of pseudoscalar mesons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606284,
  title  = {On the two-photon contributions to $e^+e^-\to\eta\gamma$ and $e^+e^-\to\eta^\prime\gamma$},
  author = {Z. K. Silagadze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606284},
  year   = {2008}
}

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23 pages, LaTeX, needs FEYNMAN package