Abstract

We evaluate the Fermi and Gamow-Teller (GT) matrix elements in tritium β decay by including in the charge-changing weak current the corrections up to one loop recently derived in nuclear chiral effective field theory (χEFT). The trinucleon wave functions are obtained from hyperspherical-harmonics solutions of the Schroedinger equation with two- and three-nucleon potentials corresponding to either χEFT (the N3LO/N2LO combination) or meson-exchange phenomenology (the AV18/UIX combination). We find that contributions due to loop corrections in the axial current are, in relative terms, as large as (and in some cases, dominate) those from one-pion exchange, which nominally occur at lower order in the power counting. We also provide values for the low-energy constants multiplying the contact axial current and three-nucleon potential, required to reproduce the experimental GT matrix element and trinucleon binding energies in the N3LO/N2LO and AV18/UIX calculations.

Autore Pugliese

• Girlanda Luca

Tutti gli autori

• Baroni A. , Girlanda L. , Kievsky A. , Marcucci L. E. , Schiavilla R. , Viviani M.

Titolo volume/Rivista

PHYSICAL REVIEW C

Anno di pubblicazione

2016

ISSN

2469-9985

ISBN

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Numero di citazioni Wos

14

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018

Numero di citazioni Scopus

13

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018

Settori ERC

Non Disponibile

Codici ASJC

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