Published July 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Kaon mixing and the charm mass

Description

We study contributions to the Delta S=2 weak Chiral Lagrangian producing K0-K0bar mixing which are not enhanced by the charm mass. For the real part, these contributions turn out to be related to the box diagram with up quarks but, unlike in perturbation theory, they do not vanish in the limit mu→0. They increase the leading contribution to the KL-KS mass difference by 10%. This means that short distances amount to (90±15)% of this mass difference. For the imaginary part, we find a correction to the λc2mc2 term of -5% from the integration of charm, which is a small contribution to εK. The calculation is done in the large-Nc limit and we show explicitly how to match short and long distances. (author)

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Available online at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
07
Journal Issue
2004
Journal Page Range
p. vp
ISSN
1126-6708

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Notes
E-print number: hep-ph/0406094