Publication Date
1997
Journal or Book Title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Abstract
We use the Cottingham method to calculate the pion and kaon electromagnetic mass differences with as few model-dependent inputs as possible. The constraints of chiral symmetry at low energy, QCD at high energy, and experimental data in between are used in the dispersion relation. We find excellent agreement with experiment for the pion mass difference. The kaon mass difference exhibits a strong violation of the lowest order prediction of Dashen’s theorem, in qualitative agreement with several other recent calculations.
Pages
7075-7092
Volume
55
Issue
11
Recommended Citation
Donoghue, JF and Perez, AF, "Electromagnetic mass differences of pions and kaons" (1997). PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 129.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/129
Comments
This is a pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://prd.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v55/i11/p7075_1.