In this thesis, we have explored the rich phenomenology of the chiral anomaly in order to further our understanding of this fascinating and unique aspect of quantum field theory. We studied a subset of anomalous processes viz., [special characters omitted], and [special characters omitted] with the explicit purpose of extending the current status of calculations in this sector. For this, we applied the N/D formalism, which exploits the unitarity and analyticity of the scattering amplitude, in order to provide a plausible extension of one-loop results into resonance dominated regions of phase space. In particular, we were able to account for vector meson exchange effects by demanding that the phase shifts of the N/D function reflect those appearing in [special characters omitted]-scattering. We also compared our results with calculations based on vector dominance models, for which purpose we adopted the hidden symmetry approach.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-3192 |
| Date | 01 January 1999 |
| Creators | Venugopal, Eswara Prasad |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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