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Solar-neutrino reactions on deuteron in effective field theory

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The cross sections for low-energy neutrino-deuteron reactions are calculated within heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory employing cut-off regularization scheme. The transition operators are derived up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in the Weinberg counting rules, while the nuclear matrix elements are evaluated using the wave functions generated by a high-quality phenomenological NN potential. With the adoption of the axial-current-four-nucleon coupling constant fixed from the tritium beta decay data, our calculation is free from unknown low-energy constants. Our results exhibit a high degree of stability against different choices of the cutoff parameter, a feature which indicates that, apart from radiative corrections, the uncertainties in the calculated cross sections are less than 1 %.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0206001,
  title  = {Solar-neutrino reactions on deuteron in effective field theory},
  author = {S. Ando and Y. H. Song and T. -S. Park and H. W. Fearing and K. Kubodera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0206001},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures. Error estimation of higher order corrections detailed