Radiative corrections to the Dalitz plot of Kl3± decays: Contribution of the four-body region

We calculate the radiative corrections to the Dalitz plot of Kl3± decays to order (α/π)(q/M 1), where q is the momentum transfer and M 1 is the mass of the kaon. We restrict the analysis to the so-called four-body region, which arises when no discrimination of real photons is made either kinematically or experimentally. We present our results in two ways: the first one with the triple integration over the photon kinematical variables ready to be performed numerically and the second one in a fully analytical form. Our results can be useful in experimental analyses of the Dalitz plot, by evaluating the model-independent coefficients of the quadratic products of the form factors; we provide some numbers as a case example. We find a small, albeit non-negligible, contribution from the four-body region to the radiative correction to the total decay rate of Kl3± decays. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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