Abstract
I consider radiative β-decay of the neutron in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. Nucleon-structure effects not encoded in the weak coupling constants gA and gV enter at the O(0:5%)-level, making a sensitive test of the Dirac structure of the weak currents possible.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Chiral Dynamics 2006 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Theory and Experiment, CD 2006 |
| Pages | 423-425 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
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| State | Published - 2007 |
| Event | 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Theory and Experiment, CD 2006 - Durham/Chapel Hill, NC, United States Duration: Sep 18 2006 → Sep 22 2006 |
Publication series
| Name | Chiral Dynamics 2006 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Theory and Experiment, CD 2006 |
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Conference
| Conference | 5th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Theory and Experiment, CD 2006 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Durham/Chapel Hill, NC |
| Period | 9/18/06 → 9/22/06 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The work of S.G. is supported in part by the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-FG02-96ER40989. We are grateful to Fred Myhrer for providing us with a draft of Ref. [24] prior to publication and thank Gudrun Hiller for a discussion of the work in Ref. [28] . We also thank the members of the Fundamental Neutron Physics Program in the Ionizing Radiation Division of the National Institute of Science and Technology for a discussion of the experimental possibilities.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics