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arxiv: 1209.5759 · v1 · pith:BCABBZ23new · submitted 2012-09-25 · ✦ hep-ph

Radiative corrections to the Dalitz plot of K_(l3)^pm decays: Contribution of the four-body region

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keywords dalitzdecaysfour-bodyplotradiativeregioncontributioncorrections
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We calculate the radiative corrections to the Dalitz plot of K_{l3}^\pm decays to order (alpha/pi)(q/M_1), where q is the momentum transfer and M_1 is the mass of the kaon. We restrict the analysis to the so-called four-body region, which arises when no discrimination of real photons is made either kinematically or experimentally. We present our results in two ways: the first one with the triple integration over the photon kinematical variables ready to be performed numerically and the second one in a fully analytical form. Our results can be useful in experimental analyses of the Dalitz plot, by evaluating the model-independent coefficients of the quadratic products of the form factors; we provide some numbers as a case example. We find a small, albeit non-negligible, contribution from the four-body region to the radiative correction to the total decay rate of K_{l3}^\pm decays.

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