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Radiative Corrections to the $K_{e3}^{\pm}$ Decay Revised

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

We consider the lowest order radiative corrections for the decay K±π0e±νK^{\pm}\to \pi^0 e^{\pm} \nu, usually referred as Ke3±K_{e3}^{\pm} decay. This decay is the best way to extract the value of the VusV_{us} element of the CKM matrix. The radiative corrections become crucial if one wants a precise value of VusV_{us}. The existing calculations were performed in the late 60's \cite{B,G} and are in disagreement. The calculation in \cite{G} turns out to be ultraviolet cutoff sensitive. The necessity of precise knowledge of VusV_{us} and the contradiction between the existing results constitute the motivation of our paper. We remove the ultraviolet cutoff dependence by using A.Sirlin's prescription; we set it equal to the WW mass. We establish the whole character of small lepton mass dependence based on the renormalization group approach. In this way we can provide a simple explanation of Kinoshita--Lee--Nauenberg cancellation of singularities in the lepton mass terms in the total width and pion spectrum. We give an explicit evaluation of the structure--dependent photon emission based on ChPT in the lowest order. We estimate the accuracy of our results to be at the level of 1%. The corrected total width is Γ=Γ0(1+δ)\Gamma=\Gamma_0(1+\delta) with δ=0.02±0.0002\delta=0.02\pm0.0002. Using the formfactor value f+(0)=0.9842±0.0084f_+(0)=0.9842\pm 0.0084 calculated in \cite{CKNRT} leads to Vus=0.2172±0.0055|V_{us}|=0.2172 \pm0.0055.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210049,
  title  = {Radiative Corrections to the $K_{e3}^{\pm}$ Decay Revised},
  author = {V. Bytev and E. Kuraev and A. Baratt and J. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210049},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

29 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, uses feynmf.sty

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