Published July 22, 2004
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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
Additional details
Identifiers
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37056725
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BETA DECAY; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; CHIRALITY; COUPLING CONSTANTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELECTRONS; ENERGY SPECTRA; FIELD THEORIES; NEUTRONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; BOSONS; DECAY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEAR DECAY; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.