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The recent experimental observation of isospin symmetry breaking (ISB) in the ground states of the $T=3/2$ mirror pair $^{73}$Sr - $^{73}$Br is theoretically studied using large-scale shell model calculations. The large valence space and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 S. M. Lenzi , A. Poves , A. O. Macchiavelli

We consider charge-symmetry violations in the nucleon-nucleon force which result from isospin-violating meson-baryon coupling constants. The vector mesons are assumed to couple to the nucleon's electromagnetic current, which we decompose…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Gardner , C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

Isospin-symmetry breaking is responsible for the energy difference of excited states in mirror nuclei. It also influences the coefficient of the isobaric multiplet mass equation. In the present work, we extensively investigate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 H. H. Li , Q. Yuan , J. G. Li , M. R. Xie , S. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , X. X. Xu , N. Michel , F. R. Xu , W. Zuo

Elastic nucleon scattering from the 3He and 3H mirror nuclei is examined as a test of charge symmetry violation. The differential cross-sections are calculated at 500 MeV using a microsopic, momentum-space optical potential including the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tim Mefford , Rubin H. Landau

Although SU(2) isospin symmetry is generally assumed in the basic theory of the strong interaction, a number of significant violations have been observed in scattering and bound states of nucleons. Many of these violations can be attributed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 W. R. Gibbs , Jean-Pierre Dedonder

Isospin is an approximate symmetry in atomic nuclei, arising from the rather similar properties of protons and neutrons. Perhaps the clearest manifestation of isospin within nuclei is in the near-identical structure of excited states in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-10-07 J. Henderson , S. R. Stroberg

A formalism for the study of charge symmetry breaking (CSB) effects is discussed and used to analyze the effects of charge symmetry breaking on neutron beta decay. The effect of including CSB reduces the beta decay matrix element by an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Jacob W. Crawford , Gerald A. Miller

The neutron-proton mass difference in (isospin asymmetric) nuclear matter and finite nuclei is studied in the framework of a medium-modified Skyrme model. The proposed effective Lagrangian incorporates both the medium influence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Ulf-G. Meißner , A. M. Rakhimov , A. Wirzba , U. T. Yakhshiev

Charge symmetry breaking (CSB) in the strong interaction occurs because of the difference between the masses of the up and down quarks. The use of effective field theories allows us to follow this influence of confined quarks in hadronic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald A Miller , Allena K. Opper , Edward J. Stephenson

Charge-symmetry breaking in the nucleon-nucleon force is investigated within an effective field theory, using a classification of isospin-violating interactions based on power-counting arguments. The relevant charge-symmetry-breaking…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. L. Friar , U. van Kolck , G. L. Payne , S. A. Coon

We study the charge symmetry breaking (CSB) effect in the binding energy of mirror hypernuclei in the mass region $A=7\sim 48$ in relativistic mean field (RMF) models introducing $NN$ and $\Lambda N$ interactions. The phenomenological…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-21 Ting-Ting Sun , Yusuke Tanimura , Hiroyuki Sagawa , Emiko Hiyama

Recently, the NA61/SHINE collaboration at the CERN SPS reported evidence of isospin-symmetry violation in high-energy nuclear collisions [Nature Commun. 16, 2849 (2025)]. The effect was observed in the relative yields of charged and neutral…

We investigate the effects of charge independence and charge symmetry breaking in neutron-rich matter. We consider neutron and proton properties in isospin-asymmetric matter at normal densities as well as the high-density neutron matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Sammarruca , L. White , B. Chen

We use the method of QCD sum rules in the presence of an external pion field to investigate isospin symmetry breakings in pion-nucleon couplings. Possible manifestations of such isospin symmetry breaking are examined in the context of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 W-Y. P. Hwang , Ze-sen Yang , Y. S. Zhong , Z. N. Zhou , Shi-lin Zhu

The roles of isospin asymmetry in nuclei and neutron stars are investigated using a range of potential and field-theoretical models of nucleonic matter. The parameters of these models are fixed by fitting the properties of homogeneous bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew W. Steiner , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer , Paul J. Ellis

The effects of isospin-symmetry breaking on the observables for parity-violating electron scattering are investigated within the framework of the nuclear shell model for 12C, 16O, and 28Si. Contributions due to mixing with low-lying states…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. E. Ormand

We study the interplay between charge symmetry breaking and renormalization in the NN system for s-waves. We find a set of universality relations which disentangle explicitly the known long distance dynamics from low energy parameters and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Calle Cordon , M. Pavon Valderrama , E. Ruiz Arriola

This paper overviews various phenomena related to the concept of isospin symmetry. The focus is on N~Z nuclei, which are excellent laboratories of isospin physics. The theoretical framework applied is nuclear Density Functional Theory and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-04 Wojciech Satula , Witold Nazarewicz

Phenomenological Lagrangians that exhibit (broken) chiral symmetry as well as isospin violation suggest short-range charge symmetry breaking (CSB) nucleon-nucleon potentials with a $\mbox{\boldmath $\sigma$}_1 \!\cdot\!\mbox{\boldmath…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. Coon , B. H. J. McKellar , V. G. J. Stoks

The influence of nuclear isospin mixing on parity-violating elastic electron scattering is studied for the even-even, N=Z nuclei 12C, 24Mg, 28Si, and 32S. Their ground-state wave functions have been obtained using a self-consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-20 O. Moreno , P. Sarriguren , E. Moya de Guerra , J. M. Udias , T. W. Donnelly , I. Sick