Published September 1980 | Version v1
Journal article

Quark-tadpole origin of the ΔI = 1/2 rule

Creators

  • 1. Arizona Univ., Tucson (USA). Dept. of Physics

Description

In the context of a two-quark field picture of current quarks and renormalized constituent quarks, we show that an s-d current-quark tadpole generated by the weak Cabibbo-GIM current appears in the current-quark nonleptonic ΔY = 1 hamiltonian. Then we demonstrate that this ΔI = 1/2 operator in fact sets the observed scale of the Ksub(s) → ππ decays without recourse to any fitted parameters. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
95
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
123-127
ISSN
0370-2693