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Non-localities and Fermi motion corrections in $K^-$ atoms

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-06 v3

Abstract

We evaluate the p-wave KNK^-N amplitudes from the chiral Lagrangians and from there construct the p-wave part of the KK^- nucleus optical potential plus a small s-wave part induced from the elementary p-wave amplitude and the nuclear Fermi motion. Simultaneously, the momentum and energy dependence of the s-wave optical potential, previously developed, are taken into account and shown to generate a small p-wave correction to the optical potential. All the corrections considered are small compared to the leading s-wave potential, and lead to changes in the shifts and widths which are smaller than the experimental errors. A thorough study of the threshold region and low densities is conducted, revealing mathematical problems for which a physical solution is given.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0012075,
  title  = {Non-localities and Fermi motion corrections in $K^-$ atoms},
  author = {C. Garcia-Recio and J. Nieves and E. Oset and A. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0012075},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

revised version, 28 pages, Latex, 8 postscript figures. Submitted to Nucl. Phys. A