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Photon-Photon Scattering, Pion Polarizability and Chiral Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Recent attempts to detect the pion polarizability via analysis of γγππ\gamma\gamma\rightarrow\pi\pi measurements are examined. The connection between calculations based on dispersion relations and on chiral perturbation theory is established by matching the low energy chiral amplitude with that given by a full dispersive treatment. Using the values for the polarizability required by chiral symmetry, predicted and experimental cross sections are shown to be in agreement.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9302203,
  title  = {Photon-Photon Scattering, Pion Polarizability and Chiral Symmetry},
  author = {John F. Donoghue and Barry R. Holstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9302203},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

21 pages(+10 figures available on request), LATEX, UMHEP-383