The off-shell electromagnetic form factors of pions and kaons in chiral perturbation theory

Abstract

The off-shell electromagnetic vertex of a (pseudo-) scalar particle contains, in general, two form factors F and G which depend, in addition to the squared momentum transfer, on the invariant masses associated with the initial and final legs of the vertex. Chiral perturbation theory to one loop is used to calculate the off-shell form factors of pions and kaons. The formalism of Gasser and Leutwyler, which was previously used to calculate the on-shell limit of the form factor F, is extended to accommodate the most general form for off-shell Green's functions in the pseudoscalar meson sector. We find that chiral symmetry predicts that the form factors F of the charged pions and kaons go off-shell in the same way, i.e., the off-shell slope at the real photon point is given by the same new phenomenological constant ${\beta }_1$. Furthermore, it is shown that at order $p^4$ the form factor F of the $K^0$ does not show any off-shell dependence. The form factors G are all related to the form factors F in the correct fashion as required by the Ward-Takahashi identity. Numerical results for different off-shell kinematics are presented.

arXiv commentTRIUMF preprint TRI-PP-94-4, 25 pages in LaTeX + 10 figures (uufile'd, compressed PostScript file appended at end, hardcopy available from authors)

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