Dr Martin Bauer martin.m.bauer@durham.ac.uk
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Dr Martin Bauer martin.m.bauer@durham.ac.uk
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Matthias Neubert
Sophie Renner
Marvin Schnubel
Andrea 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¯ea 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.
Bauer, M., Neubert, M., Renner, S., Schnubel, M., & Thamm, A. (2021). Consistent Treatment of Axions in the Weak Chiral Lagrangian. Physical Review Letters, 127(8), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.081803
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 20, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 20, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Nov 23, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 23, 2021 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Print ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1079-7114 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 127 |
Issue | 8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.081803 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1223558 |
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