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Electric structure of shallow D-wave states in Halo EFT

Nuclear Theory 2019-10-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the electric form factors of one-neutron halo nuclei with shallow D-wave states up to next-to-leading order and the E2 transition from the S-wave to the D-wave state up to leading order in Halo Effective Field Theory (Halo EFT). The relevant degrees of freedom are the core and the halo neutron. The EFT expansion is carried out in powers of Rcore/RhaloR_{core}/R_{halo}, where RcoreR_{core} and RhaloR_{halo} denote the length scales of the core and the halo, respectively. We propose a power counting scenario for weakly-bound states in one-neutron Halo EFT and discuss its implications for higher partial waves in terms of universality. The scenario is applied to the 52+\frac{5}{2}^+ first excited state and the 12+\frac{1}{2}^+ ground state of 15C^{15}\text{C}. We obtain several universal correlations between electric observables and use data for the E2 transition 52+12+\frac{5}{2}^+\to \frac{1}{2}^+ together with ab initio results from the No-Core Shell Model to predict the quadrupole moment.

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@article{arxiv.1803.02169,
  title  = {Electric structure of shallow D-wave states in Halo EFT},
  author = {J. Braun and W. Elkamhawy and R. Roth and H. -W. Hammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02169},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages, 5 figures, improved presentation and discussion of uncertainties, some typos corrected