Isospin-½ nucleon-resonance production by a,weak neutral current
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 13 (5) , 1216-1233
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.13.1216
Abstract
We define a set of ratios characterizing the production of the isospin-½ resonances and , as well as the isospin- resonance , by electromagnetic and weak (charged and neutral) currents. Assuming the most general weak neutral current with , spatial structure, we calculate the matrix elements needed to extract the production ratios in three dynamical models for resonance production: the Born-approximation model, the nonrelativistic quark model, and the quark-bag model. For the special case of the Weinberg-Salam theory neutral current, the three models suggest that for the ratios and observed in neutral-current or production on a free nucleon target should be substantially smaller (by a factor of 2 to 4) than the corresponding ratios observed in charged-current or production. We also attempt to predict the ratios and to be expected in charged-current production from the corresponding ratios observed in electroproduction, but here the three models do not agree, and so we can only state a wide possible range in which the values of the ratios may lie. We briefly discuss the chargeexchange corrections needed for comparison with experiments on complex nuclear targets; we find for an aluminum target that the reduction factors quoted above are halved, so that in neutral-current-induced reactions the ratios and are smaller by a factor of 1 to 2 than the corresponding ratios observed in charged-current-induced reactions.
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