Seminar on Theoretical Nuclear Physics
22.05.17 16:15
Electromagnetic decay of the neutral pion investigated using the Dyson-Schwinger framework
Esther Weil (Gießen)
In this talk I will summarize our recent calculation of the transition form factor of the neutral pion to two virtual photons (π0 → γ(∗)γ(∗)). This form factor is described by a QCD matrix element, so that a non-perturbative approach is required. Our method is to numerically solve truncated versions of the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations. Using this technique we have calculated the form factor in different kinematic regimes. In the first half of my talk I will discuss the case of one on-shell and one highly virtual photon. In this regime our approach predicts a sizable correction to the expected Brodsky-Lepage scaling prediction. In the second half I will discuss the rare decay π0 → e+e−. I will focus on a rediscovered numerical method, expected to have applications to other systems, in which the integration contour is routed along a complicated path in the complex plane.
The talk is based on our recent publications arXiv:1704.06046 and arXiv:1704.05774.
(Seminarraum II, HISKP)