Abstract

We use the Mellin-Barnes representation in order to improve the theoretical estimate of mass corrections to the width of light pseudoscalar meson decays into a lepton pair, \$Pl^+l^-\$ . The full resummation of the terms \$(M^2/Łambda^2) ^n,\$ \$(m^2/M^2) ^n\$and \$(m^2/Łambda^2) ^n\$ to the decay amplitude is performed, where \$m\$ is the lepton mass, \$M\$ is the meson mass and \$Łambdam\_\rho\$ is the characteristic scale of the \$P\gamma^\ast\gamma^\ast\$ form factor. The total effect of mass corrections is quite important for \$\eta(\eta^\prime)\$ decays. We also comment on the estimation of the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the chiral perturbation theory.

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