Related papers: Chiral Anomaly Tests
The interplay between the chiral anomaly and the non-leptonic weak Hamiltonian is studied. The structure of the corresponding effective Lagrangian of odd intrinsic parity is established. It is shown that the factorizable contributions…
We propose a formalism to extract the $\gamma\pi\to\pi\pi$ chiral anomaly $F_{3\pi}$ from calculations in lattice QCD performed at larger-than-physical pion masses. To this end, we start from a dispersive representation of the…
We discuss the reaction $\pi^- e^- \to \pi^- e^- \pi^{0}$ with the purpose of obtaining information on the $\gamma \pi \to \pi\pi$ anomalous amplitude ${\cal F}_{3\pi}$. We compare a full calculation at ${\cal O}(p^6)$ in chiral…
Measurement of the $\gamma 3\pi$ process has revealed a possible conflict with what should be a solid prediction generated by the chiral anomaly. We show that inclusion of appropirate energy-momentum dependence in the matrix element reduces…
The form factor for the anomalous process $\gamma \pi ^* \to \pi \pi$, $F^{3\pi}(s,t,u)$, is calculated as a phenomenological application of the QCD Dyson-Schwinger equations. The chiral-limit value dictated by the electromagnetic,…
The strength of the interaction of three pions and a photon, $F_{3\pi}$ is predicted by the axial anomaly in terms of the pion decay constant, a relation that is frequently used to constrain low-energy radiative processes involving pions,…
The amplitude for the anomalous process gamma pi -> pi pi is evaluated to two loops in the chiral expansion by means of a dispersive method. The two new coupling constants that enter at this order are estimated via sum rules derived from a…
The chiral anomaly is a fundamental property of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It governs the transition amplitudes for processes involving an odd number of Goldstone bosons of chiral symmetry breaking. In case of the coupling of three pions…
Symmetries affected by the anomaly do not survive quantization and cannot be understood classically. They are of fundamental importance and offer an opportunity of expanding the theoretical framework. We examine the theory of the anomalous…
A confined quark model study in a couple of chirally anomalous processes is presented in comparison with effective meson Lagrangian approaches of various kind. The processes considered are \pi^0 \to \gamma \gamma and \gamma \to \pi^+ \pi^-…
Chiral perturbation theory in the anomaly sector for $N_f=2$ is extended to include dynamical photons, thereby allowing a complete treatment of isospin breaking. A minimal set of independent chiral lagrangian terms is determined and the…
The pion-pion scattering amplitudes provided by second-order chiral perturbation theory are confronted with known rigorous constraints derived from the axioms of quantum field theory. We mainly test constraints restricting the…
We extend an effective Lagrangian embodying broken scale and chiral symmetry to include explicit chiral symmetry breaking and an additional chiral invariant term which allows for an axial coupling constant greater than unity. We also…
Using constituent quarks coupled to a linear sigma model at nonzero temperature, I show that many anomalous mesonic amplitudes, such as $\pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$, vanish in a chirally symmetric phase. Processes which are allowed,…
The presently experimentally interesting form factor for the anomalous process gamma -> pi^+ pi^0 pi^- is calculated as the quark "box"-amplitude where the intermediate fermion loop is the one of constituent quarks with the pseudoscalar…
The $\gamma\gamma \to \pi^0 \pi^0 \pi^0$ and $\gamma\gamma \to \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0$ amplitudes are discussed in the general context of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) to $O(p^6)$. Chiral loops are found to play a major role. This makes…
We predict differential decay distributions for phi->rho gamma gamma and phi -> omega gamma gamma using chiral perturbation theory. We also consider the isospin violating decay phi -> omega pi^0. Experimental information on these decays can…
An investigation is performed of all non-leptonic kaon decays sensitive to the chiral anomaly. Within the framework of chiral perturbation theory, there are two classes of anomalous amplitudes at $O(p^4)$: reducible and direct…
We derive dispersive representations for the anomalous process gamma pi --> pi pi with the pi pi P-wave phase shift as input. We investigate how in this framework the chiral anomaly can be extracted from a cross-section measurement using…
We present a new contribution to the $K_L\rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ amplitude, which is ${\cal{O}}(p^4)$ within the counting rules of chiral perturbation theory. This direct (non-pole) amplitude, obtained from short-distance $s \rightarrow…