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3.3 Determination of the form factors

Measurements of the Dalitz plot distribution (3.17) of data allow one in principle to pin down the form factors (up to a sign) in the range . Measuring the branching ratio and then using (3.20) gives a relationship between and which is valid in the approximation (3.8). Furthermore, muon polarization experiments measure the weighted average of the ratio over the t range of the experiment [3,25]. On the other hand, the electron modes are sensitive to only, because the other contributions are suppressed by the factor , see eqs. (3.17), (3.18).

Isospin breaking effects in and play a central role in the determination of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element from data, see [26] for a detailed discussion of this point. In the following we concentrate on the measurement of the slopes .



Carlos E.Piedrafita