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The electromagnetic Sigma-to-Lambda transition form factors with coupled-channel effects in the space-like region

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Using dispersion theory, the electromagnetic Sigma-to-Lambda transition form factors are expressed as the product of the pion electromagnetic form factor and the ΣΛˉππ\Sigma\bar{\Lambda}\to\pi\pi scattering amplitudes with the latter estimated from SU(3) chiral perturbation theory including the baryon decuplet as explicit degrees of freedom. The contribution of the KKˉK\bar{K} channel is also taken into account and the ππ\pi\pi-KKˉK\bar{K} coupled-channel effect is included by means of a two-channel Muskhelishvili-Omn\`{e}s representation. It is found that the electric transition form factor shows a significant shift after the inclusion of the KKˉK\bar{K} channel, while the magnetic transition form factor is only weakly affected. However, the KKˉK\bar{K} effect on the electric form factor is obscured by the undetermined coupling hAh_A in the three-flavor chiral Lagrangian. The error bands of the Sigma-to-Lambda transition form factors from the uncertainties of the couplings and low-energy constant in three-flavor chiral perturbation theory are estimated by a bootstrap sampling method.

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@article{arxiv.2205.00850,
  title  = {The electromagnetic Sigma-to-Lambda transition form factors with coupled-channel effects in the space-like region},
  author = {Yong-Hui Lin and Hans-Werner Hammer and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00850},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 10 figures