Published May 1, 1983 | Version v1
Journal article

Analysis of radiative pion decay π-→e-νγ

  • 1. Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

Description

We give a quantitative account of radiative pion decays. By the chiral structure of the interaction and the fact of the low mass ratio between an electron and a pion, one can suppress the inner-bremsstrahlung contribution and decays with the emission of a negative-helicity electron. By this observation, we examine a way of determining the value of the structure-dependent parameter γ, giving particular attention to the decay spectra with this electron helicity. We also investigate the effects of a neutrino mass in this process

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
9
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2227-2230
ISSN
0556-2821