Scalar, Axial, and Tensor Interactions of Light Nuclei from Lattice QCD
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Chang, Emmanuel
Davoudi, Zohreh
Gambhir, Arjun S.
Orginos, Kostas
Savage, Martin J.
Shanahan, Phiala E.
Winter, Frank
Detmold, William
Wagman, Michael L
Date Issued
April 2018
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Chang, Emmanuel et al. "Scalar, Axial, and Tensor Interactions of Light Nuclei from Lattice QCD." Physical Review Letters 120, 15 (April 2018): 152002
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Abstract
Complete flavor decompositions of the matrix elements of the scalar, axial, and tensor currents in the proton, deuteron, diproton, and [superscript 3]He at SU(3)-symmetric values of the quark masses corresponding to a pion mass m[subscript π]∼806 MeV are determined using lattice quantum chromodynamics. At the physical quark masses, the scalar interactions constrain mean-field models of nuclei and the low-energy interactions of nuclei with potential dark matter candidates. The axial and tensor interactions of nuclei constrain their spin content, integrated transversity, and the quark contributions to their electric dipole moments. External fields are used to directly access the quark-line connected matrix elements of quark bilinear operators, and a combination of stochastic estimation techniques is used to determine the disconnected sea-quark contributions. The calculated matrix elements differ from, and are typically smaller than, naive single-nucleon estimates. Given the particularly large, O(10%), size of nuclear effects in the scalar matrix elements, contributions from correlated multinucleon effects should be quantified in the analysis of dark matter direct-detection experiments using nuclear targets.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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