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Title: Effects of. Delta. -isobar degrees of freedom on low-energy electroweak transitions in few-body nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)
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  1. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
  3. Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

Variational wave functions with {Delta}-isobar components are used to study trinucleon magnetic moments, the Gamow-Teller matrix element of tritium {beta} decay, thermal neutron radiative capture on {sup 3}He, and low-energy proton weak capture on {sup 3}He. The {Delta}-isobar components are generated by transition correlation operators acting on realistic nuclear wave functions. These correlations are obtained from a fit to exact two-body ground-state and low-energy scattering solutions for the Argonne {ital v}{sub 28} and {ital v}{sub 28{ital Q}} interaction models, which include {Delta}-isobar degrees of freedom. Contributions of {Delta} isobars to electroweak current operators appear at the one-body level in this formalism. Their effect on low-energy electroweak transitions is significantly smaller than that obtained in perturbation theory analyses, where {Delta}-isobar effects are commonly subsumed into effective two-body current operators. The resulting theoretical cross section for thermal neutron radiative capture on {sup 3}He is {approx}86 {mu}b, compared to an experimental value of 55{plus minus}3 {mu}b; the astrophysical {ital S} factor for proton weak capture on {sup 3}He is predicted to be in the range (1.4--3.2){times}10{sup {minus}23} MeV b.

DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
7286557
Journal Information:
Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Vol. 45:6; ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English