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We find that the phase appearing in the unitarity relation between \( \mathcal{B}\left({K}_L\to {\mu}^{+}{\mu}^{-}\right) \) and \( \mathcal{B}\left({K}_L\to \gamma \gamma \right) \) is equal to the phase shift in the interference term of the time- dependent K → μ+μ− decay. A probe of this relation at future kaon facilities constitutes a Standard Model test with a theory precision of about 2%. The phase has further importance for sensitivity studies regarding the measurement of the time-dependent K → μ+μ− decay rate to extract the CKM matrix element combination \( \mid {V}_{ts}{V}_{td}\sin \left(\beta +{\beta}_s\right)\mid \approx {A}^2{\lambda}^5\overline{\eta} \). We find a model-independent theoretically clean prediction, cos2φ0 = 0.96 ± 0.03. The quoted error is a combination of the theoretical and experimental errors, and both of them are expected to shrink in the future. Using input from the large-NC limit within chiral perturbation theory, we find a theory preference towards solutions with negative cos φ0, reducing a four-fold ambiguity in the angle φ0 to a two-fold one.
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Dery, A., Ghosh, M., Grossman, Y. et al. A precision relation between Γ(K → μ+μ−)(t) and \( \mathcal{B}\left({K}_L\to {\mu}^{+}{\mu}^{-}\right)/\mathcal{B}\left({K}_L\to \gamma \gamma \right) \). J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)014
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