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C Decomposition of the hadronic tensors

  Here we consider the tensors

and detail their connection with the matrix element (1.2).

The general decomposition of in terms of Lorentz invariant amplitudes reads [9,11] for

 

and

 

where the form factors and are analytic functions of and . denotes the electromagnetic form factor of the kaon . satisfies the Ward identity

 

In the process (1.1) the photon is real. As a consequence of this, only the two form factors and contribute. We set

 

and obtain for the matrix element (1.2)

 

with

 

Grouping terms into an IB and a SD piece gives (1.2,1.3). As a consequence of (C.4), T is invariant under the gauge transformation .

The amplitudes and are related to the corresponding quantities and used by the PDG [3] by

 

The last term in (C.2) is omitted in [3]. It contributes to processes with a virtual photon, .

Finally, the relation to the notation used in [4,5] is

 



Carlos E.Piedrafita