8–14 Jan 2026
University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria
Europe/Madrid timezone

Pion Weak Decay in a Magnetic Field

13 Jan 2026, 17:00
30m
University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria

University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria

Speaker

Prabal Adhikari (Saint Olaf College)

Description

In this talk, I will discuss how the pattern of chiral symmetry breaking can be utilzied to compute vector and axial-vector pion matrix elements in a uniform magnetic field. The results are constructed within chiral perturbation theory and therefore model independent for a magnetic field, $\sqrt{eB}$, weaker the typical hadronic scale of $4\pi F_{\pi}\sim 1\ \rm{GeV}$. The matrix elements determine the decay rate of both charged and neutral pions. We also compared our results with lattice QCD for which there is some tension.

Author

Prabal Adhikari (Saint Olaf College)

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