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G. López Castro

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A new long distance contribution to $B^\pm\to K^\pm/π^\pm\ell^+\ell-$ decays

We have identified a missing long-distance (one-photon exchange) contribution to the $B^\pm\to K^\pm/π^\pm\ell^+\ell^-$ decays. Although it does not help to explain the anomaly measured by the LHCb Coll. in the ratio $R_K = \mathcal{B}(B^\pm\to K^\pmμ^+μ^-)/\mathcal{B}(B^\pm\to K^\pm e^+e^-)\sim0.75$ (2.6 $σ$ deviation with respect to $R_K=1+\mathcal{O}(10^{-4})$ in the Standard Model), it provides a sizable contribution to the branching ratio of the $B^\pm\to π^\pm\ell^+\ell^-$ decays. The new decay mechanism gives rise to a measurable CP asymmetry, which is of order 1\% in both channels. These predictions can be tested in forthcoming LHCb measurements.

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The VV'P form factors in resonance chiral theory and the pi-eta-eta' light-by-light contribution to the muon g-2

The description of the VV'P form factors (V,V' stands for vector particles and P for a pseudoscalar meson) for different particles virtualities remains a challenge for the theory of strong interactions. While their chiral limit is well understood, recent measurements of the gamma^* omega pi^0 and gamma^* gamma pi^0 form factors at high photon virtualities seem to depart from the simplest scaling behavior suggested by QCD. Here we attempt to describe them in their whole measured energy regimes within the Resonance Chiral Theory, a framework which naturally incorporates the chiral limit constraints and extends to higher energies by including the resonances as active fields. Specifically, we obtained an accurate description of the data up to 2 GeV on the former form factor by including three multiplets of vector resonances. Good agreement with measurements of the latter was possible even in the single resonance approximation, although we propose to measure the e^+e^- to mu^+mu^-pi^0 cross-section and di-muon invariant mass distribution to better characterize this form factor. We have then evaluated the pion exchange contribution to the muon g-2 obtaining (6.66\pm0.21)x10^{-10} with an accurate determination of the errors. We have also recalled that approximating the whole pion exchange by the pion pole contribution underestimates the corresponding result for the anomaly (by (15,20)%). Based on these results, we have predicted the eta^(\prime) transition form factors obtaining good agreement with data and obtained their respective contributions to the muon anomaly. In this way, the contribution of the three lightest pseudoscalars to it yields (10.47\pm0.54)x10^{-10}, in agreement with previous evaluations but with smaller error.

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One pion production in neutrino-nucleon scattering and the different parametrizations of the weak $N\rightarrowΔ$ vertex

The $N \to Δ$ weak vertex provides an important contribution to the one pion production in neutrino-nucleon and neutrino-nucleus scattering for $πN$ invariant masses below 1.4 GeV. Beyond its interest as a tool in neutrino detection and their background analyses, one pion production in neutrino-nucleon scattering is useful to test predictions based on the quark model and other internal symmetries of strong interactions. Here we try to establish a connection between two commonly used parametrizations of the weak $N \to Δ$ vertex and form factors (FF) and we study their effects on the determination of the axial coupling $C_5^A(0)$, the common normalization of the axial FF, which is predicted to hold 1.2 by using the PCAC hypothesis. Predictions for the $ν_μ p \to μ^- pπ^+$ total cross sections within the two approaches, which include the resonant $Δ^{++}$ and other background contributions in a coherent way, are compared to experimental data.

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The weak radiative pion vertex in τ^- ->π^-ν_τl^+ l^- decays

We carry out a detailed study of the branching fractions and lepton pair invariant-mass spectrum of τ^- ->π^- ν_τl^+l^- decays (l=e,μ). In addition to the model-independent (QED) contributions, we include the structure-dependent (SD) terms, which encode information on the hadronization of QCD currents. The form factors describing the SD contributions are evaluated by supplementing Chiral Perturbation Theory with the inclusion of the lightest multiplet of spin-one resonances as active degrees of freedom. The Lagrangian couplings have been determined demanding the known QCD short-distance behaviour to the relevant Green functions and associated form factors in the limit where the number of colours goes to infinity. As a result, we predict BR(τ^- ->π^-ν_τe^+e^-)= (1.7^{+1.1}_{-0.3})x10^{-5} and BR(τ^- -> π^-ν_τμ^+μ^-) = [0.03,1.0]x10^{-5}. According to this, the first decay could be measured in the near future, which is not granted for the second one.

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Violation of CP and T in semileptonic decays due to scalar interactions

Observing charge-parity (CP) or time-reversal (T) violations in the leptonic sector will give useful information to elucidate the nature of neutrinos. CP-violating couplings in charged leptonic currents carry out the weak phases necessary to break these symmetries. Here we study the interference of $W^{\pm}$ and $H^{\pm}$ bosons mediated amplitudes as the origin of possible CP and T violation in semileptonic decays of $K^{\pm}$ mesons and $τ^{\pm}$ leptons. We use the experimental bound on the T-odd transverse polarization asymmetry in $K^+_{μ3}$ decays to predict an upper limit on the CP violating effects in $τ\to K πν$ decays. In the framework of this model with scalar-mediated interactions, we find that current limits on the former process indicate that the CP violating effects in the latter are much smaller than the limits reported so far.

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One-Loop Electroweak Corrections to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment Using the Pinch Technique

The definition of the physical properties of particles in perturbative gauge theories must satisfy gauge invariance as a requisite. The Pinch Technique provides a framework to define the electromagnetic form factors and the electromagnetic static properties of fundamental particles in a consistent and gauge-invariant form. We apply a simple prescription derived in this formalism to check the calculation of the gauge-invariant one-loop bosonic electroweak corrections to the muon anomalous magnetic moment.

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Dynamical model for Pion - Nucleon Bremsstrahlung

A dynamical model based on effective Lagrangians is proposed to describe the bremsstrahlung reaction $ πN \to πN γ$ at low energies. The $Δ(1232)$ degrees of freedom are incorporated in a way consistent with both, electromagnetic gauge invariance and invariance under contact transformations. The model also includes the initial and final state rescattering of hadrons via a T-matrix with off-shell effects. The $πN γ$ differential cross sections are calculated using three different T-matrix models and the results are compared with the soft photon approximation, and with experimental data. The aim of this analysis is to test the off-shell behavior of the different T-matrices under consideration.

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Quark mixings as a test of a new symmetry of quark Yukawa couplings

Based on the hierarchy exhibited by quarks masses at low energies, we assume that Yukawa couplings of up and down quarks are related by $Y_u\propto Y_d^2$ at grand unification scales. This ansatz gives rise to a symmetrical CKM matrix at the grand unification (GU) scale. Using three specific models as illustrative examples for the evolution down to low energies, we obtain the entries and asymmetries of the CKM matrix which are in very good agreement with their measured values. This indicates that the small asymmetry of the CKM matrix at low energies may be the effect of the renormalization group evolution only.

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Tensor interactions and $τ$ decays

We study the effects of charged tensor weak currents on the strangeness-changing decays of the $τ$ lepton. First, we use the available information on the $K^+_{e3}$ form factors to obtain BR$(τ^- \rightarrow K^-π^0 ν_τ)\sim {\cal O}(10^{-4})$ when the $Kπ$ system is produced in an antisymmetric tensor configuration. Then, we propose a mechanism for the direct production of the $K_2^*(1430)$ in $τ$ decays. Using the current upper limit on this decay we set a bound on the symmetric tensor interactions.

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Determination of the Higgs boson mass by the cancellation of ultraviolet divergencies in the $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ Theory

We assume the vanishing of the quadratic divergences in the $SU(2)_L \otimes U(1)$ electroweak theory. Using $\,$ the $\,$ top $\,$ mass $\,$ value reported recently by the CDF Collaboration $m_t = 176 \pm 8 \pm 10 GeV$, we predict the mass of the Higgs boson to be $m_H = 321 \pm 29 GeV$. If we assume the vanishing of both quadratic and logarithmic divergencies of the top self-mass, we predict $m_t = 170.5 \pm 0.3 GeV $ and $m_H = 308.6 \pm 0.7 GeV.$

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