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Theory Center Seminar<br>
Monday, Feb. 18, 2013<br>
CEBAF Center, Room L102<br>
1:00 p.m. (coffee at 12:45 p.m.)<br>
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Bastian Kubis<br>
University of Bonn<br>
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<b>What Can We Learn From Hadronic and Radiative Decays of Light
Mesons?" </b><br>
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Chiral perturbation theory offers a powerful tool for the
investigation of light pseudoscalar mesons. It incorporates the
fundamental symmetries of QCD, interrelates various processes, and
allows to link these to the light quark masses. Its shortcomings lie
in a limited energy range: the radius of convergence of the chiral
expansion is confined to below resonance scales. Furthermore, the
strongest consequences of chiral symmetry are manifest for
pseudoscalars (pions, kaons, eta) only: vector mesons, e.g., have a
severe impact in particular for reactions involving photons. In this
talk, I advocate dispersions relations as another model-independent
tool to extend the applicability range of chiral perturbation
theory. They even allow to tackle the physics of vector mesons in a
rigorous way. It will be shown how dispersive methods can be used to
resum large rescattering effects, and to provide model-independent
links between hadronic and radiative decay modes. Examples to be
discussed will include Dalitz plot distributions of decays into 3
pions; and meson transition form factors, which have an important
impact on the hadronic light-by-light-scattering contribution to the
anomalous magnetic moment of the muon.
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