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Deacay and scattering amplitudes are not the same

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

We study the lowest lying π+π\pi^+ \pi^- resonance R, bound by the long range Coulomb potential and destabilized by short range strong interactions mediating the dominant decay into two neutral pions. Parametrizing the corresponding partial decay width by Γ(R2π0)=2/9α3mπ+2mπ02(ΔaDmπ+)2\Gamma (R \to 2 \pi^0) = 2/9 \alpha^3 \sqrt{m_{\pi^+}^2 - m_{\pi^0}^2} (\Delta a_{D} m_{\pi^+})^2 the quantity ΔaD\Delta a_{D} depends within QCD & QED on four basic parameters : ΛQCD,mu+md,α,mdmu\Lambda_{QCD}, m_{u} + m_{d}, \alpha, m_{d}- m_{u}. We are interested here only in the limit where the last two parameters vanish ΔaD0=ΔaD(ΛQCD,mu+md,α=0,mdmu=0)\Delta a_{D}^{0} = \Delta a_{D} (\Lambda_{QCD}, m_{u} + m_{d}, \alpha = 0, m_{d} - m_{u} = 0). While isospin invariance implies ΔaD0=aDI=0aDI=2\Delta a_{D}^{0} = a_{D}^{I = 0} - a_{D}^{I = 2} it is shown that beyond the first order expansion in the strong interaction the identities aDI=aIa_{D}^{I} = a^{I}, where aIa^{I} denote the strong interaction scattering lengths, do not hold.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808387,
  title  = {Deacay and scattering amplitudes are not the same},
  author = {P. Minkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808387},
  year   = {2016}
}

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