Abstract

Strong interactions between pairs of the K+ K- and K0 K0bar mesons can be studied in radiative decays of phi(1020) mesons. We present a theoretical model of the reactions e+ e- --> phi --> K+ K- gamma and e+ e- --> phi --> K0 K0bar gamma. The K+ K- and K0 K0bar effective mass dependence of the differential cross sections is derived. The total cross sections and the branching fractions for the two radiative phi decays are calculated.

Highlights

  • Strong interactions between pairs of the K+K− and K0K0 mesons can be studied in radiative decays of φ(1020) mesons

  • The φ(1020) meson decays into π+π−γ, π0π0γ and π0ηγ have been measured, for the φ transition into K0K0γ only the upper limit of the branching fraction has been obtained in Ref. [1] but there are no data for the φ → K+K−γ process

  • In this paper we outline a general theoretical model of the e+e− reactions leading to final states with two pseudoscalar mesons and a photon

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Summary

Description of the theoretical model

The kaon-kaon strong interaction near threshold is largely unknown. the parameters of the scalar resonances f0(980) and a0(980) are still imprecise. At the beginning we derive the amplitude A(m) for the e+e− → K+K−γ process. It is a sum of the four amplitudes corresponding to diagrams (a), (b), (c) and (d) in Fig. 1: e+. The four-momenta of kaons in the K+K− center-of-mass frame are: k1 = (m/2, −kf) and k2 = (m/2, kf), where k f = m2/4 − m2K is the kaon momentum in the final-state. Under a dominance of the pole at m = 2Ek ≡ 2 k2 + m2K, the amplitude A(m) can be written in the following form: A(m) = J · ∗ TK+K− (m) [I(m) − I(mφ)],. In the model of Close, Isgur and Kumano [2] the momentum distribution of the interacting kaons has been expressed by the function μ4 φ(k) = (k2 + μ2)2 ,. In order to get an integral convergence at large k in Eq (9) we use an additional cut-off parameter kmax=1 GeV

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