Isospin mixing in protonium and annihilation dynamics
Author(s) -
C. B. Dover,
Jean-Marc Richard,
J. Carbonell
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
physical review c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-490X
pISSN - 0556-2813
DOI - 10.1103/physrevc.44.1281
Subject(s) - physics , isospin , annihilation , particle physics , elementary particle , hadron , nucleon , bar (unit) , nuclear physics , meteorology
We have explored the sensitivity of pp¯-nn¯ isospin mixing in L=0,1 atomic states of protonium to changes in the multipion-exchange contribution to the nucleon-antinucleon (NN¯) potential. The resulting annihilation probabilities γIα for isospin I=0,1 and state α=2S+1LJ are combined with the spin-flavor weights for transitions NN¯→M1M2 in the 3P0 model, and confronted with selected measured branching ratios. Some problems with the phenomenology of the 3P0 model are identified. We compare the 3P0 model with a phenomenological ansatz suggested by Klempt, in which branching ratios are written as a product of spin, isospin, and orbital factors, multiplified by γIα
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