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Electromagnetism in nonleptonic weak interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We construct a low-energy effective field theory that permits the complete treatment of isospin-breaking effects in nonleptonic weak interactions to next-to-leading order. To this end, we enlarge the chiral Lagrangian describing strong and Delta S=1 weak interactions by including electromagnetic terms with the photon as additional dynamical degree of freedom. The complete and minimal list of local terms at next-to-leading order is given. We perform the one-loop renormalization at the level of the generating functional and specialize to K -> pi pi decays.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006172,
  title  = {Electromagnetism in nonleptonic weak interactions},
  author = {G. Ecker and G. Isidori and G. Mueller and H. Neufeld and A. Pich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006172},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 1 figure; 2 references added, final version for publication in Nucl. Phys. B

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