Rare Kaon Decays and CP Violation
| dc.creator | Gabbiani, Fabrizio | |
| dc.date | 1999-01-11 | |
| dc.date | 1999-03-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:06:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:06:11Z | |
| dc.description | Rare kaon decays are an important testing ground of the electroweak flavor theory: They can provide new signals of CP-violating phenomena. The interplay of long-distance QCD effects in strangeness-changing transitions can be analyzed with Chiral Perturbation Theory techniques. In particular, two rare kaon decays are analyzed: The first decay, K_L -> pi0 e+e-, is being searched for as a signal of direct Delta S = 1 CP violation. We provide a thorough updating of the analysis of the three components of the decay: 1) Direct CP violation, 2) CP violation through the mass matrix and 3) CP-conserving (two-photon) contributions. First the chiral calculation of the K_S -> pi0 e+e- rate is updated to include recent results on the nonleptonic amplitude. Then we systematically explore the uncertainties in this method. The CP-conserving amplitude remains somewhat uncertain, but present indications are such that there may be a sizable CP-violating asymmetry in the e+, e- energies from the interference of CP-conserving and CP-violating amplitudes. This may potentially be useful in determining whether direct CP violation is present. The second decay, K_L -> pi0 gamma e+e-, which occurs at a higher rate than the nonradiative process K_L -> pi0 e+e-, can be a background to CP violation studies using the latter reaction. The leading order chiral loop contribution to K_L -> pi0 gamma e+e- is completely calculable. | |
| dc.description | Ph.D. Thesis, September 1997. 104 pages, 31 eps figures. LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, umthesis.sty (included). Two references added, misprints corrected | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9901262 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9901262 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/48671 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Rare Kaon Decays and CP Violation | |
| dc.type | text |