Local chiral interactions, the tritium Gamow-Teller matrix element, and the three-nucleon contact term

Baroni, A.; Schiavilla, R.; Marcucci, L. E.; Girlanda, L.; Kievsky, A.; Lovato, A.; Pastore, S.; Piarulli, M.; Pieper, Steven C.; Viviani, M.; Wiringa, R. B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044003

Local chiral interactions, the tritium Gamow-Teller matrix element, and the three-nucleon contact term

Journal Article · Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044003· OSTI ID:1480311

Baroni, A. ^[1]; Schiavilla, R. ^[2]; Marcucci, L. E. ^[3]; Girlanda, L. ^[4]; Kievsky, A. ^[5]; Lovato, A. ^[6]; Pastore, S. ^[7]; Piarulli, M. ^[8]; Pieper, Steven C. ^[9]; Viviani, M. ^[5]; Wiringa, R. B. ^[9]

Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Univ. of Pisa, Pisa (Italy); INFN-Pisa, Pisa (Italy)
Univ. of Salento, Lecce (Italy); INFN-Lecce, Lecce (Italy)
INFN-Pisa, Pisa (Italy)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento (Italy)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The Gamow-Teller (GT) matrix element contributing to tritium β decay is calculated with trinucleon wave functions obtained from hyperspherical-harmonics solutions of the Schrödinger equation with the chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions including Δ intermediate states that have recently been constructed in configuration space. Predictions up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in the chiral expansion of the axial current (with Δ's) overestimate the empirical value by 1–4%. By exploiting the relation between the low-energy constant (LEC) in the contact three-nucleon interaction and two-body axial current, we provide new determinations of the LECs c_D and c_E that characterize this interaction by fitting the trinucleon binding energy and tritium GT matrix element. Some of the implications that the resulting models of three-nucleon interactions have on the spectra of light nuclei and the equation of state of neutron matter are briefly discussed. We also provide a partial analysis, which ignores Δ's, of the contributions due to loop corrections in the axial current at next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N4LO). Lastly, explicit expressions for the axial current up to N4LO have been derived in configuration space, which other researchers in the field may find useful.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1480311

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1478603
OSTI ID: 1480456

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Journal Name: Physical Review C Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 98; ISSN PRVCAN; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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