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Dimension Eight Operators in the Weak Operator Product Expansion
Journal of High Energy Physics (2000)
  • Vincenzo Cirigliano
  • John Donoghue, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Eugene Golowich
Abstract
We expose a potential flaw in standard treatments of weak decay amplitudes, including that of epsilon'/epsilon. We show that (contrary to conventional wisdom) dimension-eight operators do contribute to weak amplitudes, at order G_F alpha_s and without 1/M_W^2 suppression. We demonstrate the existence of these operators with a simple weak hamiltonian and proceed to discuss their contribution in a general context. We estimate the effect of dimension-eight operators to be at the 100% level in a sum rule determination of the operator O_7 for mu = 1.5 GeV, suggesting presently available values of mu are too low to justify neglect of these effects.
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Publication Date
2000
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DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/048

This is the pre-published version harvest from arXiv. The published version is located at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0007196
Citation Information
Vincenzo Cirigliano, John Donoghue and Eugene Golowich. "Dimension Eight Operators in the Weak Operator Product Expansion" Journal of High Energy Physics (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_donoghue/133/