Long-distance effects in rare and radiative K decays

Abstract

The electroweak structures of the FCNC-induced rare and radiative K decays are presented. While the former decays are sensitive to short-distance physics and offer exceptional probes for new physics, the latter are dominated by long-distance physics. Even so, they should not be set aside since they constitute essential ingredients to control the hadronic uncertainties occurring for the rare decays. This is illustrated by systematically reviewing the phenomenological strategies currently in use to cleanly predict the rare K decay rates in the Standard Model.