Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2002-07-08
Phys.Rev. C66 (2002) 055502
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
32 pages, REVTeX 4.0 with 12pt.rtx, aps.rtx, revsymb.sty, revtex4.cls, plus 14 figures; two sentences added in Summary; two re
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.66.055502
Weak-interaction currents are studied in a recently proposed effective field theory of the nuclear many-body problem. The Lorentz-invariant effective field theory contains nucleons, pions, isoscalar scalar ($\sigma$) and vector ($\omega$) fields, and isovector vector ($\rho$) fields. The theory exhibits a nonlinear realization of $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R$ chiral symmetry and has three desirable features: it uses the same degrees of freedom to describe the axial-vector current and the strong-interaction dynamics, it satisfies the symmetries of the underlying theory of quantum chromodynamics, and its parameters can be calibrated using strong-interaction phenomena, like hadron scattering or the empirical properties of finite nuclei. Moreover, it has recently been verified that for normal nuclear systems, it is possible to systematically expand the effective lagrangian in powers of the meson fields (and their derivatives) and to reliably truncate the expansion after the first few orders. Here it is shown that the expressions for the axial-vector current, evaluated through the first few orders in the field expansion, satisfy both PCAC and the Goldberger--Treiman relation, and it is verified that the corresponding vector and axial-vector charges satisfy the familiar chiral charge algebra. Explicit results are derived for the Lorentz-covariant, axial-vector, two-nucleon amplitudes, from which axial-vector meson-exchange currents can be deduced.
Ananyan Sergei M.
Serot Brian D.
Walecka John Dirk
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