https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01579-3
theoretical physics
Isospin breaking in 
decays
1
Departament de Física Teórica, IFIC, Universitat de Valéncia - CSIC, Apt. Correus 22085, 46071, Valéncia, Spain
2
Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, California, USA
3
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090, Wien, Austria
We perform a complete analysis of isospin breaking in 
amplitudes in chiral perturbation theory, including both strong isospin violation (
) and electromagnetic corrections to next-to-leading order in the low-energy expansion. The unknown chiral couplings are estimated at leading order in the 1/N
c
expansion. We study the impact of isospin breaking on CP conserving amplitudes and rescattering phases. In particular, we extract the effective couplings g
8 and g
27 from a fit to branching ratios, finding small deviations from the isospin-limit case. The ratio 
measuring the 
enhancement is found to decrease from 
in the isospin limit to 
in the presence of isospin breaking. We also analyze the effect of isospin violation on the CP violation parameter 
, finding a destructive interference between three different sources of isospin violation. Within the uncertainties of large-N
c
estimates for the low-energy constants, the isospin violating correction for is below 15%.
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