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Pion and kaon polarizabilities in the quark confinement model

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 (United States) Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Head Post Office P.O. Box 79, 101000 Moscow (USSR)
  2. Centro de Fisica Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Gama Pinto 2, P-1699 Lisboa Codex (Portugal) Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 (United States)
The Dubna quark confinement model is applied to the study of electromagnetic polarizabilities of the {pi} and {ital K} mesons. Within this model it is found that the effect of quark confinement reduces the value of the pion polarizability from that obtained in such approaches as chiral quark loop and linear {sigma} models. In the chiral limit our result coincides with the one found in chiral perturbation theory. For the charged kaon we find the electric polarizability considerably larger than the chiral prediction. This is due to the strong meson-mass dependence not expected from the pointlike interaction in effective meson Lagrangian approaches.
OSTI ID:
7048701
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 45:5; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English