Consistent Treatment of Axions in the Weak Chiral Lagrangian.
Consistent Treatment of Axions in the Weak Chiral Lagrangian.
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弱手性拉格朗日中轴子的一致处理。
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.127.081803
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
A. Thamm
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作者:
M. Bauer;M. Neubert;S. Renner;Marvin Schnubel;A. Thamm
We present a consistent implementation of weak decays involving an axion or axionlike particle in the context of an effective chiral Lagrangian. We argue that previous treatments of such processes have used an incorrect representation of the flavor-changing quark currents in the chiral theory. As an application, we derive model-independent results for the decays K^{-}→π^{-}a and π^{-}→e^{-}ν[over ¯]_{e}a at leading order in the chiral expansion and for arbitrary axion couplings and mass. In particular, we find that the K^{-}→π^{-}a branching ratio is almost 40 times larger than previously estimated.