Will the Axion Be Found Soon?

Dec, 1977
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 40 (1978) 220
Report number:
  • LA-UR-77-2746

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Abstract: (APS)
We show that if the light isoscalar pseudoscalr meson (h) proposed by Wilczek and by Weinberg exists, it must be seen in the decay K+→π+h. The theoretical lower bound and the present experiment upper bound differ by approximately an order of magnitude.
  • PSEUDOSCALAR MESON: AXION
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: AXION
  • K+: NONLEPTONIC DECAY
  • NONLEPTONIC DECAY: K+
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
  • CURRENT ALGEBRA
  • PCAC model
  • QUARK: QUARTET
  • CURRENT: AXIAL-VECTOR
  • INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS