INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, May 1995

From: The Second DAFNE Physics Handbook

Chapter 9: One Photon Initiated Processes

Eds. L. Maiani, G. Pancheri, N. Paver

Supported by the INFN, by the EC under the HCM contract number CHRX-CT920026 and by the authors home institutions.

Vector Meson Decays in Effective Chiral Lagrangians

cm A. Bramon

Grup de Física Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
A. Grau

Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos,
Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
and
G. Pancheri

INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, P.O.Box 13, I-00044 Frascati

cm

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Role played by VM in saturating the counterterms in ChPT
• 3 Different schemes for inclusion of Vector Mesons in effective lagrangians
• 4 Anomalous processes like
  • 4.1 Calculation of cross-sections for at DANE
• 5 Non-anomalous processes like
  • 5.1 VMD Contribution
  • 5.2 Adding Chiral Loops
• 6 SU(3)-breaking effects in the non-anomalous sector
• 7 SU(3)-breaking effects in the anomalous (W-Z) sector
• References