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We study fermion mass correction to chiral kinetic equations in electromagnetic fields. Different from the chiral limit where fermion number density is the only independent distribution, the number and spin densities are coupled to each…
We study fermion mass correction to chiral kinetic equations in electromagnetic fields. Different from the chiral limit where fermion number density is the only independent distribution, the number and spin densities are coupled to each…
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The decays of the eta meson are reviewed in the framework of Chiral Perturbation Theory. Particular attention is devoted to the electromagnetic channels involving photons, either in the final or intermediate states.