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ohwilleke
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A new experimental result from BESIII finds that there is isospin violation in the decays of J/Psi mesons in a path involving scalar mesons (with a narrow width in tension with world averages) and notes that a previous experiment found isospin violation in another decay chain.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06283
The paper's introduction, however, does little to present this finding in theoretical context. In particular, it doesn't explain the Standard Model expectation regarding isospin conservation or violation. I would think that isospin violation is permitted in the Standard Model, but only through flavor changing W boson interactions and only comparatively slowly at some small cross-section of the decay, and the paper is not at all clear regarding whether these kinds of W boson interactions are inferred.
Can anyone shed light on whether the isospin violation observed at BESIII in this paper is BSM or SM physics?
(Edited to add that the title should have said "Conservation" and not "Conversation". I'm quite certain that the Standard Model does not forbid discussions of isospin due to some grand cosmic conspiracy.)
Partially answering my own question, a previous BESIII paper on another isospin violating decay has a better theoretical background section: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02641
http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06283
The paper's introduction, however, does little to present this finding in theoretical context. In particular, it doesn't explain the Standard Model expectation regarding isospin conservation or violation. I would think that isospin violation is permitted in the Standard Model, but only through flavor changing W boson interactions and only comparatively slowly at some small cross-section of the decay, and the paper is not at all clear regarding whether these kinds of W boson interactions are inferred.
Can anyone shed light on whether the isospin violation observed at BESIII in this paper is BSM or SM physics?
(Edited to add that the title should have said "Conservation" and not "Conversation". I'm quite certain that the Standard Model does not forbid discussions of isospin due to some grand cosmic conspiracy.)
Partially answering my own question, a previous BESIII paper on another isospin violating decay has a better theoretical background section: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02641
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