Published November 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

ΛN→NN weak interaction in effective-field theory

  • 1. Departament ECM, Facultat de Fisica, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 2. Center of Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 (United States)
  • 3. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Theory Group, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics-LGRT, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (United States)

Description

The nonleptonic weak |ΔS|=1 ΛN interaction, responsible for the dominant nonmesonic decay of all but the lightest hypernuclei, is studied in the framework of an effective-field theory. The long-range physics is described through tree-level exchange of the SU(3) Goldstone bosons, while the short-range potential is parametrized in terms of the lowest-order contact terms. We obtain reasonable fits to available weak hypernuclear decay rates and quote the values for the parity-violating asymmetry as predicted by the present effective-field theory

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051601-051601.5
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society