English

Pionic Final State Interactions and the Hypertriton Lifetime

Nuclear Theory 2023-09-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We analyze the contribution of pionic final state interactions (FSI) in the weak decay of the hypertriton. Focusing on the 3^3He channel, we find a contribution of the pionic FSI of the order of 18%18\%. Assuming a fixed value for the branching ratio R3R_3 for the decay width into 3^3He over the decay width into 3^3He and pdpd final states, we find values for the hypertriton lifetime that are consistent with the world average as well as recent measurements by the ALICE Collaboration.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.12822,
  title  = {Pionic Final State Interactions and the Hypertriton Lifetime},
  author = {Fabian Hildenbrand and Hans-Werner Hammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12822},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures

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