A Study of some rare radiative meson decays
| dc.contributor.author | Richardson, Stephen Alan | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Picciotto, C. E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-03T20:43:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-03T20:43:23Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1997 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-08-03 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Three types of rare radiative meson decays are studied. The first type is the weak kaon decay [special characters omitted] The interest here is this decay's sensitivity to the loop-level and hence quantum structure of the standard model. Both short-distance and long-distance effects are considered, as well as possible contributions from horizontal gauge bosons. The second decay type studied is electromagnetic η decays into neutral pions, specifically [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted] The main interest here is possible signals for electromagnetic charge-conjugation violation. The modelling method used is vector meson dominance. The third type studied is electromagnetic η decays into charged pions, specifically [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted] The interest here is chiral perturbation theories that incorporate vector mesons. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8398 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mesons | en_US |
| dc.subject | Kaon | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pions | en_US |
| dc.title | A Study of some rare radiative meson decays | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |