Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1843769 | Nuclear Physics B | 2009 | 46 Pages |
Abstract
We investigate radiative corrections to K→3πK→3π decays. In particular, we extend the non-relativistic framework developed recently to include real and virtual photons and show that, in a well-defined power counting scheme, the results reproduce corrections obtained in the relativistic calculation. Real photons are included exactly, beyond the soft-photon approximation, and we compare the result with the latter. The singularities generated by pionium near threshold are investigated, and a region is identified where standard perturbation theory in the fine structure constant α may be applied. We expect that the formulae provided allow one to extract S-wave ππ scattering lengths from the cusp effect in these decays with high precision.
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Authors
M. Bissegger, A. Fuhrer, J. Gasser, B. Kubis, A. Rusetsky,