Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2005-09-15
Phys.Rev.C73:024309,2006
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
4 pages, 1 figure. Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.73.024309
We analyze the influence of $\sigma$ meson exchange on the main nonmesonic hypernuclear weak decay observables: the total rate, $\Gamma_{NM}$, the neutron-to-proton branching ratio, $\Gamma_{n/p}$, and the proton asymmetry parameter, $a_\Lambda$. The $\sigma$ meson exchange is added to the standard strangeness-changing weak $\Lambda N\to NN$ transition potential, which includes the exchange of the complete pseudoscalar and vector mesons octet ($\pi$, $\eta$, $K$, $\rho$, $\omega$, $K^*$). Using a shell model formalism, the $\sigma$ meson weak coupling constants are adjusted to reproduce the recent $\Gamma_{NM}$ and $\Gamma_{n/p}$ experimental data for $^5_{\Lambda}He$. Numerical results for the remaining observables of $^5_{\Lambda}He$ and all the observables of $^{12}_{\Lambda}C$ decays are presented. They clearly show that the addition of the $\sigma$ meson, in spite of improving some observables values, is not enough to reproduce simultaneously all the measurements, and the puzzle posed by the experimental data remains unexplained.
Barbero Cesar
Mariano Albert
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