Radiative corrections to neutral pion-pair production

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. A

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10.1140/epja/i2010-11050-9

We calculate the one-photon loop radiative corrections to the neutral pion-pair photoproduction process $\pi^-\gamma \to \pi^-\pi^0\pi^0$. At leading order this reaction is governed by the chiral pion-pion interaction. Since the chiral $\pi^+\pi^-\to\pi^0\pi^0$ contact-vertex depends only on the final-state invariant-mass it factors out of all photon-loop diagrams. We give analytical expressions for the multiplicative correction factor $R\sim \alpha/2\pi$ arising from eight classes of contributing one-photon loop diagrams. An electromagnetic counterterm has to be included in order to cancel the ultraviolet divergences generated by the photon-loops. Infrared finiteness of the virtual radiative corrections is achieved (in the standard way) by including soft photon radiation below an energy cut-off $\lambda$. The radiative corrections to the total cross section vary between $+2\%$ and $-2\%$ for center-of-mass energies from threshold up to $7m_\pi$. The finite part of the electromagnetic counterterm gives an additional constant contribution of about $1\%$, however with a large uncertainty.

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