Thermal neutron captures on dd and 3^3He

Aug, 2010
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 232502
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Report number:
  • JLAB-THY-10-1198

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We report on a study of the ndnd and n3n\,^3He radiative captures at thermal neutron energies, using wave functions obtained from either chiral or conventional two- and three-nucleon realistic potentials with the hyperspherical harmonics method, and electromagnetic currents derived in chiral effective field theory up to one loop. The predicted ndnd and n3n\,^3He cross sections are in good agreement with data, but exhibit a significant dependence on the input Hamiltonian. A comparison is also made between these and new results for the ndnd and n3n\,^3He cross sections obtained in the conventional framework for both potentials and currents.
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