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Constraints on the $\Lambda$-neutron interaction from charge symmetry breaking in the $\mathbf{^4_\Lambda \rm \bf He}$--$\mathbf{^4_\Lambda \rm \bf H}$ hypernuclei

Nuclear Theory 2021-11-03 v1

Abstract

We utilize the experimentally known difference of the Λ\Lambda separation energies of the mirror hypernuclei Λ4He{^4_\Lambda \rm He} and Λ4H{^4_\Lambda \rm H} to constrain the Λ\Lambda-neutron interaction. We include the leading charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) interaction into our hyperon-nucleon interaction derived within chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order. In particular, we determine the strength of the two arising CSB contact terms by a fit to the differences of the separation energies of these hypernuclei in the 0+0^+ and 1+1^+ states, respectively. By construction, the resulting interaction describes all low energy hyperon-nucleon scattering data, the hypertriton and the CSB in Λ4He{^4_\Lambda \rm He}-Λ4H{^4_\Lambda \rm H} accurately. This allows us to provide first predictions for the Λ\Lambdan scattering lengths, based solely on available hypernuclear data.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01134,
  title  = {Constraints on the $\Lambda$-neutron interaction from charge symmetry breaking in the $\mathbf{^4_\Lambda \rm \bf He}$--$\mathbf{^4_\Lambda \rm \bf H}$ hypernuclei},
  author = {Johann Haidenbauer and Ulf-G. Meißner and Andreas Nogga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01134},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to special issue of few-body systems "Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg's papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians"

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