Importance of d-wave contributions in the charge symmetry breaking reaction d d ? 4 He p 0
Importance of d-wave contributions in the charge symmetry breaking reaction d d ? 4 He p 0
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d 波在电荷对称性破缺反应中的重要性 d d ?
DOI:
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.037
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Adlarson P
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作者:
Adlarson P
Within the Standard Model of elementary particles isospin symmetry is violated via quark mass differences as well as electromagnetic effects [1–3]. On the hadronic level this is reflected, for example, by the proton–neutron mass difference. It is due to quark-mass effects that the proton is lighter than the neutron and, therefore, stable. The observation of isospin violation (IV) in hadronic reactions in principle allows one to study the effects of quark masses. However, most experimental signatures of IV are dominated by the pion mass difference mπ0− mπ±, which is to a very good approximation of purely electromagnetic origin. An exception are observables that are charge symmetry breaking (CSB). Charge symmetry, a subgroup of isospin symmetry, is the invariance of the Hamiltonian under rotation by 180◦ around the second axis in isospin space that interchanges up and down quarks. The charge symmetry operator does not interchange charged and neutral pion states, and the pion mass difference does not enter (see, eg,[4]). On the basis of theoretical approaches with a direct connection to QCD, like lattice QCD and chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), it is, therefore, possible to link quark-mass effects to hadronic observables. While CSB observables have the advantage of being directly related to quark-mass differences, their smallness poses an experimental challenge. First precision measurements of CSB were reported for the reaction dd→ 4Heπ0 at beam energies very close to the reaction threshold [5] and, at the same time, via a nonvanishing forward–backward asymmetry in np→ dπ0 [6]. Both results triggered a series of theoretical investigations. The signal of the latter measurement was shown to be proportional to the quark-mass-induced part of the proton–neutron mass difference up to next-to-leading order in ChPT [7, 8]. This became possible by the adaption of ChPT to pion production reactions in Ref.[9]. The formalism has recently been pushed to next-to-next-to-leading order for s-waves [10, 11]. The contribution of p-waves has been investigated in Ref.[12]. For a recent review see Ref.[13].