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2.2 The production of an extended scalar meson via a KK loop

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.



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