Weak radiative hyperon decays and vector meson dominance
✍ Scribed by P. Żenczykowski
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 308 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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✦ Synopsis
We study the question whether the phenomenologicaily successful VMD approach to weak radiative hyperon decays can be made consistent with Hera's theorem and still yield the pattern of asymmetries exhibited by experimentM data. It appears that an essential ingredient which governs the pattern of asymmetries is the offshell behaviour of the input electromagnetic 1/2--1/2 + -7 couplings. Although this behaviour can be chosen in such a way that the experimentally observed pattern is obtained, and yet Hera's theorem satisfied, at the same time the approach yields a definite prediction for the size of weak meson-nucleon coupling constants. Comparison with experiment reveals then another conflict.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
We present a vector dominance model to describe radiative decays involving the light scalar mesons. Assuming that the light scalar mesons form a nonet this model gives relations among various decay amplitudes of the form S + yy, V -+ Sy and S ---f Vy, where S and V denote scalar and vector mesons. B