Precision radiative corrections to the muon polarisation in the semileptonic decay of a charged kaon

An expression for the Dalitz plot of the semileptonic decay of a charged kaon, including radiative corrections to order O [ ( α / π ) ( q / M 1 ) ] , where q is the four-momentum transfer and M 1 is the mass of the decaying kaon, is obtained. Contributions of both the three- and four-body regions ar...

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Published in:European physical journal plus 2020-10, Vol.135 (10), p.858, Article 858
Main Authors: Sánchez-Glez, M. J., Martínez, A., Neri, M., Juárez-León, C., Torres, J. J., Flores-Mendieta, Rubén
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied and Technical Physics
Asymmetry
Atomic
Bremsstrahlung
Charged particles
Complex Systems
Condensed Matter Physics
Decay
Form factors
Integrals
Kaons
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Molecular
Momentum transfer
Muons
Optical and Plasma Physics
Photons
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Polarization
Regular Article
Symmetry
Theoretical
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Summary:An expression for the Dalitz plot of the semileptonic decay of a charged kaon, including radiative corrections to order O [ ( α / π ) ( q / M 1 ) ] , where q is the four-momentum transfer and M 1 is the mass of the decaying kaon, is obtained. Contributions of both the three- and four-body regions are accounted for. Additionally, the emitted muon is considered to be polarised, so the analysis is also focused on evaluating the radiative corrections to the longitudinal, transverse, and normal polarisation components of the muon. The final formulas, with the triple integration of the bremsstrahlung photon variables ready to be performed numerically, are general enough to be used in model-independent experimental analyses whether or not the real photon is discriminated. With the known numerical values of the weak form factors and slope parameters of the process, the radiative corrections to the components of the muon polarisation are found to be very small compared to their respective uncorrected values over most of the allowed kinematical region. Similarly, the fully integrated radiative corrections to the components of the muon polarisation vector are also rather small, around 0.2 % . This might suggest that radiative corrections to the muon polarisation can be safely ignored in an actual analysis of K μ 3 + decays.
ISSN:2190-5444
2190-5444
DOI:10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00866-y