Three types of rare radiative meson decays are studied. The first type is the weak kaon decay [special characters omitted] The interest here is this decay's sensitivity to the loop-level and hence quantum structure of the standard model. Both short-distance and long-distance effects are considered, as well as possible contributions from horizontal gauge bosons. The second decay type studied is electromagnetic η decays into neutral pions, specifically [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted] The main interest here is possible signals for electromagnetic charge-conjugation violation. The modelling method used is vector meson dominance. The third type studied is electromagnetic η decays into charged pions, specifically [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted] The interest here is chiral perturbation theories that incorporate vector mesons. / Graduate
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/8398 |
Date | 03 August 2017 |
Creators | Richardson, Stephen Alan |
Contributors | Picciotto, C. E. |
Source Sets | University of Victoria |
Language | English, English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis |
Format | application/pdf |
Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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