A strategy to study the rôle of the charm quark in explaining the ΔI = 1/2 rule

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 427-467

  Giusti, Leonardo ^a   Hernández, Pilar ^b   Laine, Mikko ^c   Weisz, Peter ^d   Wittig, Hartmut ^e  

^a CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chiral Lagrangians; Kaon Physics; Lattice QCD; Weak Decays

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044482172     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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