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2.3 Theory

The form factors and have been discussed in all kinds of models, Vector Meson Dominance, hard meson, etc.. For a discussion see Ref. [9]. We will restrict ourselves to the predictions in the framework of CHPT.

To leading order we have

We also have . The rate here is entirely given by the inner Bremsstrahlung contribution. At the one-loop level several form factors get non-zero values [11]

 

These results obey the current algebra relation of Ref. [9]. The function does, however, deviate somewhat from the linear parametrization often used. The function is defined in appendix B.

The fact that the form factors at next-to-leading order could be written in terms of the kaon electromagnetic form factor in a simple way is not true anymore at the level. The Lagrangian at order contains a term of the form

that contributes to and but not to the kaon electromagnetic form factor, .



Carlos E.Piedrafita