Published July 7, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiative pion decay: Determination of FA(0) from τ-lepton decay data

  • 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany, F.R.)
  • 2. Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Teorica

Description

The form factor FA(0) in π → evγ is calculated, at the soft pion point, directly from data on the semileptonic τ-lepton decays τ → Vτ+nπ, which determine the relevant vector and axial-vector hadronic spectral functions. The reliability of this calculation is assessed by using these fitted spectral functions to check the saturation of the first two Weinberg sum rules. The results are: FA(0)=0.017±0.001±0.004, and γ(0)=FA(0)/FV(0)=0.67±0.04±0.16. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
208
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
131-134
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA