Abstract
We use realistic two- and three-nucleon interactions in a hybrid chiral-perturbation-theory calculation of the charge-symmetry-breaking reaction d d → α π0 to show that a cross section of the experimentally measured size can be obtained using LO and NNLO pion-production operators. This result supports the validity of our power counting scheme and demonstrates the necessity of using an accurate treatment of ISI and FSI. It also becomes evident that a full calculation requires the use of consistent chiral nuclear forces to overcome the visible model dependence of our result.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 465-470 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
Volume | 639 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 17 Aug 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Andy Bacher, Allena Opper, and Ed Stephenson for useful discussions and encouragement, without which this work would not have been completed. This research was partially funded by FCT grant POCTI/37280/FNU/2001 (A.C.F.), NSF grant PHY-0457014 (A.G.), DOE grants DE-FG02-97ER41014 (G.A.M.), DE-FG02-93ER40756 (A.G.) and DE-FG02-04ER41338 (U.v.K.), and a Sloan Research Fellowship (U.v.K.).