Relationships between nonmesonic-weak-decays in different hypernuclei

Abstract

Using as a tool the s-wave approximation (sWA), this work demonstrates that the nonmesonic weak decay transition rates $\Gamma_{n}$ and $\Gamma_{p}$ can be expressed in all hypernuclei up to $^{29}_\Lambda$Si (and very likely in heavier ones too) in the same way as in the s-shell hypernuclei, i.e. as a linear combination of only three elementary transition rates. This finding leads to the analytic prediction that, independently of the transition mechanism, all hypernuclei that are on the stability line (N = Z), i.e. $^5_\Lambda$He, $^7_\Lambda$Li, $^9_\Lambda$Be, $^{11}_\Lambda$B, $^{13}_\Lambda$C, $^{17}_\Lambda$O, $^{29}_\Lambda$Si, etc should roughly have the same ratio $\Gamma_{n}/\Gamma_{p}$, the magnitude of which rapidly increases when one approaches the neutron drip-line (N >> Z), and opposite happens when one goes toward the proton drip-line (N << Z).Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur