On the effect of the Delta(1232) in hypernuclear non-mesonic weak decay: a microscopic approach
arXiv:1207.0799 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.027
Abstract
The non-mesonic weak decay of -hypernuclei is studied within a microscopic diagrammatic approach which includes, for the first time, the effect or the -baryon resonance. We adopt a nuclear matter formalism extended to finite nuclei via the local density approximation, a one-meson exchange weak transition potential, a Bonn nucleon-nucleon strong potential and a strong potential based on the Landau-Migdal theory. Ground state correlations and final state interactions (FSI), at second order in the baryon-baryon strong interaction, are introduced on the same footing for all the isospin channels of one- and two-nucleon induced decays. Weak decay rates and single and double-coincidence nucleon spectra are predicted for C and compared with recent KEK and FINUDA data. The introduces new FSI-induced decay mechanisms which lead to an improvement when comparing the obtained nucleon spectra with data, while it turns out to have a negligible effect on the decay rates. Discrepancies with experiment remain only for emission spectra involving protons, but are mostly restricted to double-nucleon correlations in the non-back-to-back kinematics.
11 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1103.2277
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