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Title: Large $$N$$ approach to kaon decays and mixing 28 years later: $$\Delta I = 1/2$$ rule, $$\hat B_K$$ and $$\Delta M_K$$

Abstract

We review and update our results for K → π π decays and K⁰- K¯⁰ mixing obtained by us in the 1980s within an approach based on the dual representation of QCD as a theory of weakly interacting mesons for large N colours. In our analytic approach the dynamics behind the enhancement of ReA0 and suppression of ReA2, the so-called ΔI = 1/2 rule for K → π π decays, has a simple structure: the usual octet enhancement through quark-gluon renormalization group evolution down to the scales O(1 GeV) is continued as a meson evolution down to zero momentum scales at which the factorization of hadronic matrix elements is at work. The inclusion of lowest-lying vector meson contributions in addition to the pseudoscalar ones and of Wilson coefficients in a momentum scheme improves significantly the matching between quark-gluon and meson evolutions. In particular, the anomalous dimension matrix governing the meson evolution exhibits the structure of the known anomalous dimension matrix in the quark-gluon evolution. The recent results on ReA2 and ReA0 from the RBC-UKQC collaboration give support for our approach. In particular, the signs of the two main contractions found numerically by these authors follow uniquely from our analytic approach.more » At NLO in 1/N we obtain R = ReA0/ReA2= 16.0±1.5 which amounts to an order of magnitude enhancement over the strict large N limit value √2. QCD penguins contribute at 15% level to this result. We also find B^K = 0.73± 0.02, with the smallness of 1/N corrections to the large N value B^K = 3/4 resulting within our approach from an approximate cancellation between pseudoscalar and vector meson one-loop contributions. We summarize the status of ΔMK in this approach.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Garching (Germany); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
  2. Univ. catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1128718
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-14-001-T
Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1401.1385
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 74; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Buras, Andrzej J., Gérard, Jean -Marc, and Bardeen, William A. Large $N$ approach to kaon decays and mixing 28 years later: $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule, $\hat B_K$ and $\Delta M_K$. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2871-x.
Buras, Andrzej J., Gérard, Jean -Marc, & Bardeen, William A. Large $N$ approach to kaon decays and mixing 28 years later: $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule, $\hat B_K$ and $\Delta M_K$. United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2871-x
Buras, Andrzej J., Gérard, Jean -Marc, and Bardeen, William A. Tue . "Large $N$ approach to kaon decays and mixing 28 years later: $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule, $\hat B_K$ and $\Delta M_K$". United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2871-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1128718.
@article{osti_1128718,
title = {Large $N$ approach to kaon decays and mixing 28 years later: $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule, $\hat B_K$ and $\Delta M_K$},
author = {Buras, Andrzej J. and Gérard, Jean -Marc and Bardeen, William A.},
abstractNote = {We review and update our results for K → π π decays and K⁰- K¯⁰ mixing obtained by us in the 1980s within an approach based on the dual representation of QCD as a theory of weakly interacting mesons for large N colours. In our analytic approach the dynamics behind the enhancement of ReA0 and suppression of ReA2, the so-called ΔI = 1/2 rule for K → π π decays, has a simple structure: the usual octet enhancement through quark-gluon renormalization group evolution down to the scales O(1 GeV) is continued as a meson evolution down to zero momentum scales at which the factorization of hadronic matrix elements is at work. The inclusion of lowest-lying vector meson contributions in addition to the pseudoscalar ones and of Wilson coefficients in a momentum scheme improves significantly the matching between quark-gluon and meson evolutions. In particular, the anomalous dimension matrix governing the meson evolution exhibits the structure of the known anomalous dimension matrix in the quark-gluon evolution. The recent results on ReA2 and ReA0 from the RBC-UKQC collaboration give support for our approach. In particular, the signs of the two main contractions found numerically by these authors follow uniquely from our analytic approach. At NLO in 1/N we obtain R = ReA0/ReA2= 16.0±1.5 which amounts to an order of magnitude enhancement over the strict large N limit value √2. QCD penguins contribute at 15% level to this result. We also find B^K = 0.73± 0.02, with the smallness of 1/N corrections to the large N value B^K = 3/4 resulting within our approach from an approximate cancellation between pseudoscalar and vector meson one-loop contributions. We summarize the status of ΔMK in this approach.},
doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2871-x},
journal = {European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields},
number = 5,
volume = 74,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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