Suppose that and
with three momenta
produce an extended
scalar meson in its rest frame. The interaction Hamiltonian
is in
general a function of momentum. Now make the replacement
, expand
to leading order in e and one
finds a new electromagnetic contribution
The effect of this form factor is readily seen in time ordered perturbation theory. There are
four contributions: ( are figs 2a, c, while
are fig b where the
is emitted from the
or
leg). We write these (for momentum routing see fig 3)
where
where is the energy of a kaon with momentum P.
Note that
is the (form factor modified) contact diagram and
is the new
contribution arising from the extended
vertex.
After some manipulations their sum can be written
If we may integrate the final
term in eq (2.18) by parts and obtain for it
This is identical to the limit of
, and hence we
see explicitly that the
term (i.e. the
as calculated above) is effectively subtracted
at
q=0 due to the partial integration of the
contribution,
.
If one now has a model for one can perform the integrals in eq (2.18)
numerically.
For the KK molecule the wavefunction
is a solution of the Schrodinger equation
where (ref 13) one approximates
with and hence E=- 10 MeV. This equation may be solved numerically
and, for analytic purposes, we find that the
is well approximated by
(fig 4)
where (thus
, see also ref
13). The momentum space wave function that is used in our computation is thus
The rate for is shown as a function of
in fig (5). The non relativistic approximation eqs (2.12-2.19) is valid for
which is applicable to the KK molecule: for
the
fully relativistic formalism is required and has been included in the curve displayed in fig
5. As
and
we recover the
numerical result of the pointlike field theory whereas for the specific
molecule
wavefunction above one predicts a branching ratio of some
(width
). This is only
of the pointlike field theory result but is larger than that expected for the
production rate of a
scalar meson.
Note that at the system is in some sense a mixture between genuinely separate
(which require
) and a compact
system.
These results and their interpretation are still preliminary. Some of the questions that
they bear on are discussed in the next section.