On the short distance constraints from K(L,S) ---> mu+ mu-

Oct, 2003
16 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 01 (2004) 009
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Abstract:
Motivated by new precise results on several KLK_L decays, sensitive to the KLγγ{K_L \to \gamma \gamma} form factor, we present a new analysis of the KLμ+μK_L\to \mu^+\mu^- long-distance amplitude based on a semi-phenomenological approach. Particular attention is devoted to the evaluation of the uncertainties of this method and to the comparison with alternative approaches. Our main result is a conservative upper bound of 2.5×1092.5 \times 10^{-9} on B(KLμ+μ)shortB(K_L \to \mu^+ \mu^-)_{\rm short}, which is compatible with the SM expectation and which provides significant constraints on new-physics scenarios. The possibility to extract an independent short-distance information from future searches on KSμ+μK_S \to \mu^+ \mu^- is also briefly discussed.
  • K0(L): leptonic decay
  • K0(S): leptonic decay
  • amplitude analysis: short-distance behavior
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • K0(L): branching ratio
  • K0(L): radiative decay
  • decay: form factor
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • numerical calculations
  • K0(L) --> muon+ muon-