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Induced pseudoscalar form factor of the nucleon at two-loop order in chiral perturbation theory
We calculate the imaginary part of the induced pseudoscalar form factor of
the nucleon in the framework of two-loop heavy baryon chiral
perturbation theory. The effect of the calculated three-pion continuum on the
pseudoscalar constant measurable in
ordinary muon capture turns out to be negligibly small.
Possible contributions from counterterms at two-loop order are numerically
smaller than the uncertainty of the dominant pion-pole term proportional to the
pion-nucleon coupling constant . We conclude that a
sufficiently accurate representation of the induced pseudoscalar form factor of
the nucleon at low momentum transfers is given by the sum of the pion-pole
term and the Adler-Dothan-Wolfenstein term: , with fm
the axial mean square radius of the nucleon.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Three-body spin-orbit forces from chiral two-pion exchange
Using chiral perturbation theory, we calculate the density-dependent
spin-orbit coupling generated by the two-pion exchange three-nucleon
interaction involving virtual -isobar excitation. From the
corresponding three-loop Hartree and Fock diagrams we obtain an isoscalar
spin-orbit strength which amounts at nuclear matter
saturation density to about half of the empirical value of MeVfm. The
associated isovector spin-orbit strength comes out about a
factor of 20 smaller. Interestingly, this three-body spin-orbit coupling is not
a relativistic effect but independent of the nucleon mass . Furthermore, we
calculate the three-body spin-orbit coupling generated by two-pion exchange on
the basis of the most general chiral -contact interaction. We find
similar (numerical) results for the isoscalar and isovector spin-orbit
strengths and with a strong dominance of
the p-wave part of the -contact interaction and the Hartree
contribution.Comment: 8 pages, 4figure, published in : Physical Review C68, 054001 (2003
Chiral -exchange NN-potentials: Two-loop contributions
We calculate in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory the local
NN-potentials generated by the two-pion exchange diagrams at two-loop order. We
give explicit expressions for the mass-spectra (or imaginary parts) of the
corresponding isoscalar and isovector central, spin-spin and tensor
NN-amplitudes. We find from two-loop two-pion exchange a sizeable isoscalar
central repulsion which amounts to MeV at fm. There is a
similarly strong isovector central attraction which however originates mainly
from the third order low energy constants entering the chiral -scattering amplitude. We also evaluate the one-loop -exchange diagram
with two second order chiral -vertices proportional to the low
energy constants as well as the first relativistic 1/M-correction
to the -exchange diagrams with one such vertex. The diagrammatic results
presented here are relevant components of the chiral NN-potential at
next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Novel approach to pion and eta production in proton-proton collisions near threshold
We evaluate the threshold matrix-element for the reaction in
a fully relativistic Feynman diagrammatic approach. We employ a simple
effective range approximation to take care of the S-wave final-state
interaction. The experimental value for the threshold amplitude fm can be reproduced by contributions from tree level chiral
(long-range) pion exchange and short-range effects related to vector meson
exchanges, with exchange giving the largest individual contribution.
Pion loop effects appear to be small. We stress that the commonly used heavy
baryon formalism is not applicable in the NN-system above the pion production
threshold due to the large external momentum, , with and the nucleon and the pion mass, respectively. We
furthermore investigate the reaction near threshold within
the same approach. We extract from the data the triplet threshold amplitude as
fm. Its real part can be well understood from
(relativistic) tree level meson-exchange diagrams. In addition, we investigate
the process near threshold. We use a simple factorization
ansatz for the final-state interaction and extract from the data the
modulus of the threshold amplitude, fm. With , this value can be reproduced by (relativistic) tree level
meson-exchange diagrams and -rescattering, whose strength is fixed by the
scattering length. We also comment on the recent near threshold data
for -production.Comment: 28 pp, LaTeX, 9 figs, uses epsf, updated version. To be published in
Eur. Phys. J. A (1999). **Title changed again*
Chiral 3-exchange NN-potentials: Results for dominant next-to-leading order contributions
We calculate in (two-loop) chiral perturbation theory the local NN-potentials
generated by the three-pion exchange diagrams with one insertion from the
second order chiral effective pion-nucleon Lagrangian proportional to the
low-energy constants . The resulting isoscalar central potential
vanishes identically. In most cases these -exchange potentials are larger
than the ones generated by the diagrams involving only leading order vertices
due to the large values of (which mainly represent virtual
-excitation). A similar feature has been observed for the chiral
-exchange. We also give suitable (double-integral) representations for
the spin-spin and tensor potentials generated by the leading-order diagrams
proportional to involving four nucleon propagators. In these cases the
Cutkosky rule cannot be used to calculate the spectral-functions in the
infinite nucleon mass limit since the corresponding mass-spectra start with a
non-vanishing value at the -threshold. Altogether, one finds that chiral
-exchange leads to small corrections in the region fm where
- and chiral -exchange alone provide a very good strong NN-force as
shown in a recent analysis of the low-energy pp-scattering data-base.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, to be published in The Physical Review
Chiral -exchange NN-potentials: Results for diagrams proportional to g_A^4 and g_A^6
We calculate in (two-loop) chiral perturbation theory the local NN-potentials
generated by the three-pion exchange diagrams proportional to g_A^4 and g_A^6.
Surprisingly, we find that the total isoscalar central -exchange
potential vanishes identically. The individually largest -exchange
potentials are of isoscalar spin-spin, isovector central and isoscalar tensor
type. For these potentials simple analytical expressions can be given. The
strength of these dominant -exchange potentials at r=1.0 fm is 4.6 MeV,
2.9 MeV and 1.4 MeV, respectively. Furthermore, we observe that the spin-spin
and tensor potentials due to the diagrams proportional to g_A^6 do not exist in
the infinite nucleon mass limit.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Comment about constraints on nanometer-range modifications to gravity from low-energy neutron experiments
A topic of present interest is the application of experimentally observed
quantum mechanical levels of ultra-cold neutrons in the earth's gravitational
field for searching short-range modifications to gravity. A constraint on new
forces in the nanometer-range published by Nesvizhevsky and Protasov follows
from inadequate modelling of the interaction potential of a neutron with a
mirror wall. Limits by many orders of magnitude better were already derived
long ago from the consistency of experiments on the neutron-electron
interaction.Comment: three page
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