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4.5 Improvements at DANE

The numerical results given above demonstrate very clearly that the non-trivial CHPT effects of can be detected at DANE in all four channels without any problem of statistics. Of course, the rates are bigger for the electronic modes. On the other hand, the relative size of the structure dependent terms is somewhat bigger in the muonic channels (around 8% for the chosen cuts). We observe that there is negative interference between the loop and counterterm amplitudes.

The sensitivity to the counterterm coupling constants and to the chiral anomaly can be expressed as the difference in the number of events between the tree level and the amplitudes (without loops). In the optimal case of , this amounts to more than events/yr at DANE. Almost all of this difference is due to . It will be very difficult to extract the coupling constant from the total rates. A more detailed study is needed to determine whether can be extracted from differential distributions.

The chiral anomaly is more important for , but even there it influences the total rates rather little. Once again, a dedicated study of differential rates is necessary to locate the chiral anomaly, if possible at all.

On the other hand, taking into account that is already known to good accuracy (see table 1 in Ref. [2]), decays will certainly allow for precise and unambiguous tests of the one-loop effects in CHPT [11].



Carlos E.Piedrafita