Weak kaon production off the nucleon

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.033001· OSTI ID:21432830

Rafi Alam, M; Sajjad Athar, M ^[1]; Ruiz Simo, I; Vicente Vacas, M J ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202 002 (India)
2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Institutos de Investigacion de Paterna, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)

The weak kaon production off the nucleon induced by neutrinos is studied at the low and intermediate energies of interest for some ongoing and future neutrino oscillation experiments. This process is also potentially important for the analysis of proton decay experiments. We develop a microscopical model based on the SU(3) chiral Lagrangians. The basic parameters of the model are f{sub {pi},} the pion decay constant, Cabibbo's angle, the proton and neutron magnetic moments, and the axial vector coupling constants for the baryons octet, D and F, that are obtained from the analysis of the semileptonic decays of neutron and hyperons. The studied mechanisms are the main source of kaon production for neutrino energies up to 1.2 to 1.5 GeV for the various channels and the cross sections are large enough to be amenable to be measured by experiments such as Minerva and T2K.

• OSTI ID: 21432830
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.033001; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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