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Consistency constraints on ms from QCD dispersion relations and chiral perturbation theory in Kl3 decays

Richard F. Lebed, Karl Schilcher

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9710489

Abstract

We use both old and new theoretical developments in QCD dispersion relation constraints on the scalar form factor in the decay K --> πl νl to obtain constraints on the strange quark mass. The perturbative QCD side of the calculation incorporates up to four-loop corrections, while the hadronic side uses a recently developed parameterization constructed explicitly to satisfy the dispersive constraints. Using chiral perturbation theory () as a model for soon-to-be measured data, we find a series of lower bounds on ms increasing with the accuracy to which one believes to represent the full QCD result.

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