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In-medium $\Lambda$ isospin impurity from charge symmetry breaking in the ${_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm H}-{_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm He}$ mirror hypernuclei

Nuclear Theory 2023-03-21 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The Λ\Lambda separation energies in the mirror hypernuclei Λ4HΛ4He{_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm H}-{_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm He} exhibit large charge symmetry breaking (CSB). Analyzing this CSB within pionless effective field theory while using partially conserved baryon-baryon SU(3) flavor symmetry, we deduce a ΛΣ0\Lambda -\Sigma^0 induced in-medium admixture amplitude AI=11.5%{\cal A}_{I=1}\approx 1.5\% in the dominantly isospin I=0I=0 Λ\Lambda hyperon. Our results confirm the free-space value AI=1(0){\cal A}^{(0)}_{I=1} inferred directly within the SU(3) baryon octet by Dalitz and von-Hippel in 1964 and reaffirmed in a recent QCD+QED lattice calculation. Furthermore, exploring the consequences of SU(3) flavor symmetry on the Λ\Lambda-nucleon interaction, we find that CSB is expected to impact the S=1S=1 and S=0S=0 spin channels in opposite directions, with the latter dominating by an order of magnitude. These observations explain a recent deduction of Λ\Lambda-nucleon CSB strengths.

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@article{arxiv.2202.07460,
  title  = {In-medium $\Lambda$ isospin impurity from charge symmetry breaking in the ${_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm H}-{_{\Lambda}^4}{\rm He}$ mirror hypernuclei},
  author = {M. Schäfer and N. Barnea and A. Gal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07460},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, to be submitted for publication. v2: slightly shortened, submitted for publication. v3: slightly revised in response to referee remarks. v4: as published in PRC 106 (2022) L031001. v5: inessential typos corrected in eqs.(4,5,9) here and in the latest PRC published version

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