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- Asymmetry parameter for nonmesonic hypernuclear decay
- Univ Nacl La Plata
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn
- 0556-2813
- We give general expressions for the vector asymmetry in the angular distribution of protons in the nonmesonic weak decay of polarized hypernuclei. From these we derive an explicit expression for the calculation of the asymmetry parameter, a(Lambda), which is applicable to the specific cases of He-5(Lambda) and C-12(Lambda) described within the extreme shell model. In contrast to the approximate formula widely used in the literature, it includes the effects of three-body kinematics in the final states of the decay and correctly treats the contribution of transitions originating from single-proton states beyond the s-shell. This expression is then used for the corresponding numerical computation of a(Lambda) within several one-meson-exchange models. Besides the strictly local approximation usually adopted for the transition potential, we also consider the addition of the first-order nonlocality terms. We find values for a(Lambda) ranging from -0.62 to -0.24, in qualitative agreement with other theoretical estimates but in contradiction with some recent experimental determinations.
- 1-Sep-2005
- Physical Review C. College Pk: American Physical Soc, v. 72, n. 3, 11 p., 2005.
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- American Physical Soc
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.035210
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