Bridging over p-wave pi-production and weak processes in few-nucleon systems with chiral perturbation theory

dc.creatorNakamura, Satoshi X.
dc.date2007-09-09
dc.date2008-05-13
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dc.descriptionI study an aspect of chiral perturbation theory (χPT) which enables one to ``bridge'' different reactions. That is, an operator fixed in one of the reactions can then be used to predict the other. For this purpose, I calculate the partial wave amplitude for the p-wave pion production (pp\to pnπ^+) using the pion production operator from the lowest and the next nonvanishing orders. The operator includes a contact operator whose coupling has been fixed using a matrix element of a low-energy weak process (pp\to de^+ν_e). I find that this operator does not reproduce the partial wave amplitude extracted from experimental data, showing that the bridging over the reactions with significantly different kinematics is not necessarily successful. I study the dependence of the amplitude on the various inputs such as the NN potential, the πNΔcoupling, and the cutoff. I argue the importance of a higher order calculation. In order to gain an insight into a higher order calculation, I add a higher order counter term to the operator used above, and fit the couplings to both the low-energy weak process and the pion production. The energy dependence of the partial wave amplitude for the pion production is described by the operator consistently with the data. However, I find a result which tells us to be careful about the convergence of the chiral expansion for the pp\to pnπ^+ reaction.
dc.description30 pages, 13 figures, figures changed, compacted text
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1239
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1239
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C77:054001,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.77.054001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200841
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleBridging over p-wave pi-production and weak processes in few-nucleon systems with chiral perturbation theory
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