Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2010-10-12
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
101+6 pages,42 figures, Diplom-Thesis, University of Bonn, July 2010
Scientific paper
In this thesis we discuss the decays of the pseudoscalar mesons (the neutral pion, the eta and eta-prime) which are governed by the chiral anomaly. Some of these decays are of special interest because their study permits a deep insight into aspects of modern physics. The decays can be classified according to the type of the anomaly (triangle or box) that governs the corresponding amplitude when it is extrapolated to the chiral point. In order to take the momentum dependencies of the form factors into account, the actual calculations are performed in the frame work of vector meson dominance (VMD) models, namely in terms of the original hidden gauge model and modern generalized models. The results of the triangle-anomaly sector show that the hidden gauge model and the modern modifications can describe the data equally well. In the box-anomaly sector the data have a slight preference to the modern modified VMD formulation. The results of the latter also agree very well with the predictions of unitarized chiral perturbation theory. In the case of the box-anomaly decays, we especially analyze the contributions of an unconventional untested CP-violating electric dipole form factor that is sensitive to the strange-quark/antiquark-content of the eta and eta-prime mesons. We verify the claim that it could still be of natural size by comparing with the new KLOE data for eta-> pi+ pi- e+ e-.
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