Kaon electromagnetic form factors in dispersion theory

Feb 22, 2022
18 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 5, 432
  • Published: May 11, 2022
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Report number:
  • PSI-PR-22-04,
  • ZU-TH 22/22

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Abstract: (Springer)
The electromagnetic form factors of charged and neutral kaons are strongly constrained by their low-energy singularities, in the isovector part from two-pion intermediate states and in the isoscalar contribution in terms of ω\omega and ϕ\phi residues. The former can be predicted using the respective ππKˉK\pi \pi \rightarrow {{\bar{K}}} K partial-wave amplitude and the pion electromagnetic form factor, while the latter parameters need to be determined from electromagnetic reactions involving kaons. We present a global analysis of time- and spacelike data that implements all of these constraints. The results enable manifold applications: kaon charge radii, elastic contributions to the kaon electromagnetic self energies and corrections to Dashen’s theorem, kaon boxes in hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) scattering, and the ϕ\phi region in hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP). Our main results are: r2c=0.359(3)fm2\langle r^2\rangle _\text {c}=0.359(3)\,\text {fm}^2, r2n=0.060(4)fm2\langle r^2\rangle _\text {n}=-0.060(4)\,\text {fm}^2 for the charged and neutral radii, ϵ=0.63(40)\epsilon =0.63(40) for the elastic contribution to the violation of Dashen’s theorem, aμK-box=0.48(1)×1011a_\mu ^{K\text {-box}}=-0.48(1)\times 10^{-11} for the charged kaon box in HLbL scattering, and aμHVP[K+K,1.05GeV]=184.5(2.0)×1011a_\mu ^\text {HVP}[K^+K^-, \le 1.05\,\text {GeV}]=184.5(2.0)\times 10^{-11}, aμHVP[KSKL,1.05GeV]=118.3(1.5)×1011a_\mu ^\text {HVP}[K_SK_L, \le 1.05\,\text {GeV}]=118.3(1.5)\times 10^{-11} for the HVP integrals around the ϕ\phi resonance. The global fit to KˉK{{\bar{K}}} K gives Mˉϕ=1019.479(5)MeV{{\bar{M}}}_\phi =1019.479(5)\,\text {MeV}, Γˉϕ=4.207(8)MeV{\bar{ \varGamma }}_\phi =4.207(8)\,\text {MeV} for the ϕ\phi resonance parameters including vacuum-polarization effects.
Note:
  • 18 pages, 10 figures; v2 as published in EPJC
  • form factor: electromagnetic
  • photon photon: scattering
  • K: charge radius
  • vacuum polarization: hadronic
  • vacuum polarization: effect