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Cosmas Zachos
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This question reminds you that $$\langle 0|J^5_{\mu,0}(x)|\pi^0(p)\rangle=-if_{\pi} e^{-ipx}p_{\mu},$$ the mother of PCAC. That is to say, you already know this axial current corresponds to a SSB generator, and so is linear in the Goldstone boson corresponding to it, $$ J^5_{\mu,0}\propto f_\pi \partial_\mu \pi^0 + ... $$ where the ellipsis represents terms of higher order in the fields.

The current is basically the goldston: The corresponding charge pumps such goldstons into and out of the chirally non-invariant vacuum!

As a consequence, the corresponding term of the effective Lagrangian which gives you the above current divergence is proportional to $$ \frac{\pi^0}{f_\pi}F_{\mu\nu}\tilde{F}^{\mu\nu}. $$ It therefore induces neutral pion decay to two photons, quite observable and physical, really.

This term was an early reassurance of the genius of the WZWN term of flavor-chiral anomalous effective actions.

Cosmas Zachos
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