Conveners
Parallel Session 6 - Goldstone Boson WG
- Mario Antonelli (LNF)
- Sebastien Descotes-Genon (CNRS/Univ. Paris-Sud 11)
- Andreas Juettner (University of Southampton)
- Emilie Passemar (Indiana University/JLab)
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Xu Feng (Columbia University, New York)02/07/2015, 16:20Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkThe rare kaon decays, K → πν¯ν, have attracted increasing interest during the past few decades. As flavor changing neutral current processes, these decays are highly suppressed in the standard model and thus provide ideal probes for the observation of new physics effects. As second-order weak interactions, the ultra-rare decays K → πν¯ν represent a significant challenge in experiments. After 40...Go to contribution page
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Sinya Aoki (Kyoto University)02/07/2015, 16:50Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkWe discuss the fate of the axial U(1) symmetry in 2-flavor QCD, when the non-singlet chiral symmetries are recovered at finite temperature. We theoretically investigate the constraints on the eigenvalue density of the Dirac operator, derived from the non-singlet chiral symmetries among various multi-point correlation functions in the chiral limit. We show that the axial U(1) symmetry, broken...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Robaina (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Mainz)02/07/2015, 17:10Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkWe investigate the low-temperature phase of strongly interacting matter and the crossover region with two light flavors of quarks in Lattice QCD. Based on Chiral Ward Identities we test the applicability of a fixed-temperature chiral expansion given that chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. It indicates that a sharp real-time excitation persists with the quantum numbers of the pion...Go to contribution page
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Aron Bernstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)02/07/2015, 17:30Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkThe pi^0 rightarrow gamma gamma decay rate is dominated by the QCD axial anomaly that is increased by approx 4.5% +- 1.0% by the mixing of the pi^0 wave function with the eta, eta^' mesons. This relatively large isospin breaking effect is proportional to the mass difference of the up and down quarks. It has been calculated in Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) by three slightly different...Go to contribution page
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Ashot Gasparian (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro)02/07/2015, 17:50Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkThe neutral pion is the lightest strongly interacting particle in Nature. Therefore, the properties of $\pi^0$ decay are especially sensitive to the underlying fundamental symmetries of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In particular, the pi^0 -> gamma gamma decay width is primarily defined by the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking effect (chiral anomaly) in QCD. Theoretical activities in this...Go to contribution page
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Karol Kampf (Charles University, Prague)02/07/2015, 18:10Goldstone Boson Working GroupTalkIn this talk I will present basic properties of the lightest meson, pi0. I will discuss its decay modes, mainly two photon decay, Dalitz decay and e+e- production and focus on its recent theoretical and experimental studies. Connection with the theoretical calculation of the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution in the g-2 type experiment will be outlined.Go to contribution page