Radiative Corrections to the Neutron Beta-decay within the Standard Model
Abstract
Starting with the basic Lagrangian of the Standard Model, the radiative corrections to the neutron beta-decay are acquired. The electroweak interactions are consistently taken into consideration amenably to the Weinberg-Salam theory. The effect of the strong quark-quark interactions on the neutron beta-decay is parameterized by introducing the nucleon electromagnetic form factors and the nucleon weak transition current specified by the form factors g_V, g_A, ... The radiative corrections to the total decay probability W and to the asymmetry coefficient of the electron momentum distribution A obtained to constitute \delta W = 8.7%, \delta A = -2% . The contribution to the radiative corrections due to allowance for the nucleon form factors and the nucleon exited states amounts up to a few per cent to the whole value of the radiative corrections. The ambiguity in description of the nucleon compositeness is this surely what causes the uncertainties ~0.1% in evaluation of the neutron beta-decay characteristics. For now, this puts bounds to the precision attainable in obtaining the element V_ud of the CKM matrix and the g_V, g_A, ... values from experimental data processing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0311350,
title = {Radiative Corrections to the Neutron Beta-decay within the Standard Model},
author = {G. G. Bunatian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0311350},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
REVTEX, 50 pages, no figures, uses the auxiliary axodrow.sty