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T-matrix of $Z^0$ Decay into Two Photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-03-06 v2

Abstract

We first confirm that Nishijima's method of the π0γ+γ\pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma +\gamma calculation can precisely reproduce the observed life time of π0\pi^0 decay. Then, we calculate, for the first time, the T-matrix of the Z0γ+γZ^0 \rightarrow \gamma +\gamma process in which the vertex of the γμγ5\gamma^\mu \gamma_5 is responsible for the decay of the weak vector boson. Even though the decay rate itself vanishes to zero due to the symmetry nature of two photons (Landau-Yang theorem), the T-matrix of the process has neither linear nor logarithmic divergences. Therefore, there is no room for the regularization of the triangle diagrams with the γμγ5\gamma^\mu\gamma^5 vertex. Further, the T-matrices of all the triangle diagrams do not have any divergences at all, and therefore it is rigorously proved that the anomaly equation is spurious and appears only because of the improper regularization of unphysical amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0926,
  title  = {T-matrix of $Z^0$ Decay into Two Photons},
  author = {N. Kanda and R. Abe and T. Fujita and H. Kato and H. Tsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0926},
  year   = {2013}
}

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