Breakdown of PCAC in diffractive neutrino interactions

Details Breakdown of PCAC in diffractive neutrino interactions Breakdown of PCAC in diffractive neutrino interactions

2011-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/1105.1711v3

Phys.Rev.C84:024608,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.84.024608

We test the hypothesis of partially conserved axial current (PCAC) in high energy diffractive neutrino production of pions. Since the pion pole contribution to the Adler relation (AR) is forbidden by conservation of the lepton current, the heavier states, like the a_1 pole, \rho-\pi-cut, etc., control the lifetime of the hadronic fluctuations of the neutrino. We evaluate the deviation from the AR in diffractive neutrino-production of pions on proton and nuclear targets. At high energies, when all the relevant time scales considerably exceed the size of the target, the AR explicitly breaks down on an absorptive target, such as a heavy nucleus. In this regime, close to the black disc limit, the off-diagonal diffractive amplitudes vanish, while the diagonal one, \pi->\pi, which enters the AR, maximizes and saturates the unitarity bound. At lower energies, in the regime of short lifetime of heavy hadronic fluctuations the AR is restored, i.e. it is not altered by the nuclear effects.

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