K_l3 form factors at order p^6 in chiral perturbation theory

Details K_l3 form factors at order p^6 in chiral perturbation theory K_l3 form factors at order p^6 in chiral perturbation theory

2001-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0112352v3

Eur.Phys.J.C25:427-443,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

32 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10052-002-0967-1

This paper describes the calculation of the semileptonic K_l3 decay form factor at order p^6 of chiral perturbation theory which is the next-to-leading order correction to the well-known p^4 result achieved by Gasser and Leutwyler. At order p^6 the chiral expansion contains 1- and 2-loop diagrams which are discussed in detail. The irreducible 2-loop graphs of the sunset topology are calculated numerically. In addition, the chiral Lagrangian L^6 produces direct couplings with the W-bosons. Due to these unknown couplings, one can always add linear terms in q^2 to the predictions of the form factor f_-(q^2). For the form factor f_+(q^2), this ambiguity involves even quadratic terms. Making use of the fact that the pion electromagnetic form factor involves the same q^4 counter term, the q^4-ambiguity can be resolved. Apart from the possibility of adding an arbitrary linear term in q^2 our calculation shows that chiral perturbation theory converges very well in this application, as the O(p^6) corrections are small. Comparing the predictions of chiral perturbation theory with the recent CPLEAR data, it is seen that the experimental form factor f_+(q^2) is well described by a linear fit, but that the slope lambda_+ is smaller by about 2 standard deviations than the O(p^4) prediction. The unavoidable q^2 counter term of the O(p^6) corrections allows to bring the predictions of chiral perturbation theory into perfect agreement with experiment.

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