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Some analytic properties of a decay amplitude with final state interactions

I. - The vertex diagrams in K → 3π decay

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Summary

The simplest vertex-type diagrams for K → 3π decay contain an internal double pion line: when the total rest-mass parameter λ of this line is taken as discrete, the amplitude possesses on the physical sheet an anomalous branch point above the normal one, subject to the condition (M2 − μ2) /2 < λ2 − (M μ)2 withM the kaon andμ the pion mass. On integrating over λ2 this singularity is eliminated. In order to understand the amplitude fully, we must consider it temporarily as a function of two complex variables, in which a double dispersion representation is found to hold. The spectral functions are examined in semiclosed form to exemplify these statements, and to give a perturbationtheory illustration of some of the popular approximations in calculations on this decay.

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I più semplici diagrammi del tipo a vertice per il decadimento K → 3π contengono una linea interna per il doppio pione: se si prende come quantità discreta il parametroλ della massa totale di riposo di quest a linea, l’ampiezza possiede sul foglietto fisico, al di sopra di quello normale, un pun to anomalo di branching, sottoposto alla condizione (M2 - μ2)/2 < λ2 < (M -μ)2, in cuiM è la massa del kaone eμ quella del pione. Per integrazione in λ2 si elimina questa singolarità. Per comprendere appieno l’ampiezza, dobbiamo considerarla temporaneamente come funzione di due variabili complesse, in cui si tvova che è valida una rappresentazione con doppia dispersione. Per fare un esempio di queste affermazioni e per dare una illustrazione in Teoria della perturbazione di alcune delle approssimazioni più comuni nei calcoli di quesro decadimento, si esaminano le funzioni spettrali in forma semichiusa.

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On leave of absence from Christ Church, Oxford. Supported by a grant to the Institute from the Xational Science Foundation.

On leave of absence from Magdalen College, Oxford. Supported in part by the U.S.A.F. Office of Scientific Research. Air Research and Development Command.

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Barton, G., Kacser, C. Some analytic properties of a decay amplitude with final state interactions. Nuovo Cim 21, 593–604 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02828796

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