Chiral dynamics in (anti)neutrino-induced pion production off the nucleon

Mar 31, 2019
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  • PoS CD2018 (2019) 048
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  • Published: Mar 31, 2019 by SISSA

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Abstract: (SISSA)
The weak pion production off the nucleon is systematically investigated at low energies in a manifestly relativistic chiral perturbation theory in the presence of Δ\Delta(1232) resonances. Most of the involved low-energy constants are previously determined in other processes (or quantities) such as pion-nucleon scattering, while the rest ones are set to be of natural size. As a consequence, the total cross sections for single pion production in three different reaction channels, induced either by neutrino or antineutrino, are predicted. For the neutrino-induced case, our predictions are well consistent with the exiting experimental ANL data except for the νμnμnπ+\nu_\mu n\to \mu^-n\pi^+ channel. That indicates higher order contributions, behaving as unitarity corrections and extra contact counterterms, are still significant for this channel. In addition, results on neutral-current weak pion production are also discussed. Our chiral representation of weak pion production can be applied to study various low-energy theorems, as well as to analyse pion photo- and electro-production.
  • talk
  • pi: production
  • neutrino: beam
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • Delta(1232)
  • unitarity: correction
  • energy: low
  • total cross section
  • low-energy theorem
  • neutral current