Radiative corrections to low-energy neutrino reactions

2002/11/19 by Andriy Kurylov, A. Kurylov, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf +2 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Optics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Radiative transfer #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.67.035502

published as Phys.Rev. C67 (2003) 035502 · 23 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2002/11/19 · openalex publication_date 2003/03/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We show that the radiative corrections to charged current (CC) nuclear reactions with an electron (positron) in the final state are described by a universal function. The consistency of our treatment of the radiative corrections with the procedure used to extract the value of the axial coupling constant g_A is discussed. To illustrate we apply our results to (anti) neutrino deuterium disintegration and to pp fusion in the sun. The limit of vanishing electron mass is considered, and a simple formula sufficiently accurate for E_obs\ensuremath\gtrsim1MeV is obtained. The size of the nuclear structure-dependent effects is also discussed. Finally, we consider CC transitions with an electron (positron) in the initial state and discuss some applications to electron capture reactions.

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