Published July 22, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Radiative neutron β-decay in effective field theory

Description

We consider radiative β-decay of the neutron in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, with an extension including explicit Δ degrees of freedom. We compute the photon energy spectrum as well as the photon polarization; both observables are dominated by the electron bremsstrahlung contribution. Nucleon-structure effects not encoded in the weak coupling constants gA and gV are determined at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion, and enter at the O(0.5%)-level, making a sensitive test of the Dirac structure of the weak currents possible

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.064;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0403241v2;
PII
S0370269304007142;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
593
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 105-114
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.