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Dominant $2\pi\gamma$-exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction: Spin-spin and tensor potentials

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We calculate at two-loop order in chiral perturbation theory the electromagnetic corrections to the two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction that is generated by the isovector spin-flip ππNN\pi\pi NN contact-vertex proportional to the large low-energy constant c43.4c_4\simeq 3.4 GeV1^{-1}. We find that the respective 2πγ2\pi\gamma-exchange potentials contain sizeable isospin-breaking components which reach up to -4% of corresponding isovector 2π2\pi-exchange potentials. The typical values of these novel charge-independence breaking spin-spin and tensor potentials are 0.11-0.11 MeV and 0.090.09 MeV, at a nucleon distance of r=mπ1=1.4r=m_\pi^{-1}=1.4 fm. The charge-symmetry breaking spin-spin and tensor potentials come out a factor of 2.4 smaller. Our analytical results for these presumably dominant isospin-violating spin-spin and tensor NN-forces are in a form such that they can be easily implemented into phase-shift analyses and few-body calculations.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0610089,
  title  = {Dominant $2\pi\gamma$-exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction: Spin-spin and tensor potentials},
  author = {N. Kaiser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0610089},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, to be published in Physical Review C: Brief reports

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