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A. Nehme
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We evaluate the size of isospin breaking corrections to form factors $f$ and $g$ of the $K_{ell 4}$ decay process $K^+topi^+pi^-ell^+ u_{ell}$ which is actually measured by the extended NA48 setup at CERN. We found that, keeping apart the effect of Coulomb interaction, isospin breaking does not affect modules. This is due to the cancelation between corrections of electromagnetic origin and those generated by the difference between up and down quark masses. On the other hand, electromagnetism affects considerably phases if the infrared divergence is dropped out using a minimal subtraction scheme. Consequently, the greatest care must be taken in the extraction of $pipi$ phase shifts from experiment.
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The charged $K_{ell 4}$ decay, $K^+topi^+pi^-ell^+ u_{ell}$ is studied in the framework of chiral perturbation theory based on the effective Lagrangian including mesons, photons, and leptons. We give analytic expressions for the two vectorial form factors, $f$ and $g$, calculated at one-loop level in the presence of Isospin breaking effects. These expressions may then be used to disentangle the Isospin breaking part from the measured form factors and hence improve the accuracy in the determination of $pipi$ scattering parameters from $K_{ell 4}$ experiments.
We use chiral perturbation theory to evaluate the scattering amplitude for the process Pi^+ K^- to Pi^+ K^- at leading and next-to-leading orders in the chiral counting and in the presence of isospin breaking effects. We also discuss the influence of the latter on the combination of the S-wave Pi K scattering lengths which is relevant for the 2S - 2P energy levels shift of K Pi atoms.
The remarkable recent progress in the precision of Lattice QCD computations for a number of physical quantities relevant for flavour physics has motivated the introduction of isospin-breaking effects, including in particular electromagnetic corrections, to the computations. The isospin breaking corrections are necessary to fully exploit this improved precision for the determination of the fundamental parameters of the Standard Model, including the CKM matrix elements, and to look for deviations from experimental measurements which might signal the presence of new physics. Together with colleagues from Rome, we have developed and implemented a framework for including isospin-breaking corrections in leptonic decays $Ptoellbar u_ell(gamma)$, where $P$ is a pseudoscalar meson and $ell$ a charged lepton, and the theoretical framework and numerical results are reviewed below. The status of our studies to extend this framework to semileptonic decays $P_1to P_2ellbar u_ell(gamma)$, where $P_{1,2}$ are pseudoscalar mesons, is also presented.
The procedure to calculate masses and matrix-elements in the presence of mixing of the basis states is explained in detail. We then apply this procedure to the two-loop calculation in Chiral Perturbation Theory of pseudoscalar masses and decay constants including quark mass isospin breaking. These results are used to update our analysis of $K_{ell4}$ done previously and obtain a value of $m_u/m_d$ in addition to values for the low-energy-constants $L_i^r$.
Data on Ke4 decays allow one to extract experimental information on the elastic pi pi scattering amplitude near threshold, and to confront the outcome of the analysis with predictions made in the framework of QCD. These predictions concern an isospin symmetric world, while experiments are carried out in the real world, where isospin breaking effects - generated by electromagnetic interactions and by the mass difference of the up and down quarks - are always present. We discuss the corrections required to account for these, so that a meaningful comparison with the predictions becomes possible. In particular, we note that there is a spectacular isospin breaking effect in Ke4 decays. Once it is taken into account, the previous discrepancy between NA48/2 data on Ke4 decays and the prediction of pi pi scattering lengths disappears.
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