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Structure of radiative interferences and g=2 for vector mesons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The result by Burnett-Kroll (BK) states that for radiative decays the interference of O(ω1){\cal O}(\omega^{-1}) in the photon energy ω\omega, vanishes after sum over polarizations of the involved particles. Using radiative decays of vector mesons we show that if the vector meson is polarized the O(ω1){\cal O}(\omega^{-1}) terms are null only for the canonical value of the magnetic dipole moment of the vector meson, namely g=2{\bf g}=2 in Bohr's magneton units. A subtle cancellation of all O(ω1){\cal O}(\omega^{-1}) terms happens when summing over all polarizations to recover the Burnett-Kroll result. We also show the source of these terms and the corresponding cancellation for the unpolarized case and exhibit a global structure that can make them individually vanish in a particular kinematical region.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0209212,
  title  = {Structure of radiative interferences and g=2 for vector mesons},
  author = {G. Toledo Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0209212},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages latex, 1 figure. To appear in PRD

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