Charm mass dependence of the weak hamiltonian in chiral perturbation theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 363-382

  Hernández, Pilar ^a   Laine, Mikko ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiral Lagrangians; Kaon Physics; Lattice QCD; Weak Decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044462092     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/018     Document Type: Article

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