Axion production in the η → ππa decay within SU(3) chiral perturbation theory

Autor: Jin-Bao Wang, Zhi-Hui Guo, Zhun Lu, Hai-Qing Zhou
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 11, Pp 1-28 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2024)029
Popis: Abstract We study the axion and axion-like particle production from the η → ππa decay within the SU(3) chiral perturbation theory up to the one-loop level. The conventional SU(3) chiral low energy constants are found to be able to reabsorb all the divergences from the chiral loops in the η → ππa decay amplitude, and hence render the amplitude independent of the renormalization scale. The unitarized η → ππa decay amplitudes are constructed to take into account the ππ final-state interactions and also properly reproduce the perturbative results from the chiral perturbation theory. Detailed analyses between the perturbative amplitudes and the unitarized ones are given in the phenomenological discussions. By taking the values of the chiral low energy constants in literature, we predict the Dalitz distributions, the spectra of the ππ and aπ systems, and also the branching ratios of the η → ππa process by varying m a from 0 to m η − 2m π .
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