presented by A. Gal at the 12th International Seminar on Nuclear Physics, Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, May 15-19 2017; prepared for J. Phys. Conf.; v2 -- slightly expanded version
Charge symmetry breaking (CSB) is particularly strong in the A=4 mirror hypernuclei $_Λ^4$H--$_Λ^4$He. Recent four-body no-core shell model calculations that confront this CSB by introducing $Λ$-$Σ^0$ mixing to leading-order chiral effective field theory hyperon-nucleon potentials are reviewed, and a shell-model approach to CSB in p-shell $Λ$ hypernuclei is outlined.
Ongoing progress in understanding and evaluating charge symmetry breaking in $Λ$ hypernuclei is discussed in connection to recent measurements of the $_Λ^{4}{\rm H}(0^+_{\rm g.s.})$ binding energy at MAMI [A1 Collaboration: PRL 114 (2015) 232501] and of the $_Λ^{4}{\rm He}(1^+_{\rm exc})$ excitation energy at J-PARC [E13 Collaboration: PRL 115 (2015) 222501].
The large charge symmetry breaking (CSB) implied by the $Λ$ binding energy difference $ΔB^{4}_Λ(0^+_{\rm g.s.})\equiv B_Λ(_Λ^4$He)$-$$B_Λ(_Λ^4$H) = 0.35$\pm$0.06 MeV of the $A=4$ mirror hypernuclei ground states, determined from emulsion studies, has defied theoretical attempts to reproduce it in terms of CSB in hyperon masses and in hyperon-nucleon interactions, including one pion exchange arising from $Λ-Σ^0$ mixing. Using a schematic strong-interaction $ΛN\leftrightarrowΣN$ coupling model developed by Akaishi and collaborators for $s$-shell $Λ$ hypernuclei, we revisit the evaluation of CSB …
Charge symmetry breaking (CSB) in the $Λ$-nucleon strong interaction generates a charge dependence of $Λ$ separation energies in mirror hypernuclei, which in the case of the $A=4$ mirror hypernuclei $0^+$ ground states is sizable, $ΔB^{J=0}_Λ\equiv B^{J=0}_Λ (_Λ^4{\rm He}) -B^{J=0}_Λ(_Λ^4{\rm H})=230\pm 90$ keV, and of opposite sign to that induced by the Coulomb repulsion in light hypernuclei. Recent ab-initio calculations of the ($_Λ^4{\rm H},{_Λ^4{\rm He}}$) mirror hypernuclei $0^+_{\rm g.s.}$ and $1^+_{\rm exc}$ levels have demonstrated that a $Λ- Σ^0$ mixing CSB model due to Dalitz and vo…
We report on ab-initio NCSM calculations of the A=4 mirror Lambda hypernuclei Lambda-4H and Lambda-4He, using the Bonn-Juelich LO chiral EFT YN potentials plus a CSB Lambda0--Sigma0 mixing vertex. In addition to reproducing rather well the 0+ (g.s.) and 1+ (exc.) binding energies, these four-body calculations demonstrate for the first time that the observed CSB splitting of mirror levels, reaching hundreds of keV for 0+ (g.s.), can be reproduced using realistic theoretical interaction models, although with a non-negligible momentum cutoff dependence. Our results are discussed in relation to re…
The $Λ$ separation energies in the mirror hypernuclei ${_Λ^4}{\rm H}-{_Λ^4}{\rm He}$ exhibit large charge symmetry breaking (CSB). Analyzing this CSB within pionless effective field theory while using partially conserved baryon-baryon SU(3) flavor symmetry, we deduce a $Λ-Σ^0$ induced in-medium admixture amplitude ${\cal A}_{I=1}\approx 1.5\%$ in the dominantly isospin $I=0$ $Λ$ hyperon. Our results confirm the free-space value ${\cal A}^{(0)}_{I=1}$ inferred directly within the SU(3) baryon octet by Dalitz and von-Hippel in 1964 and reaffirmed in a recent QCD+QED lattice calculation. Furtherm…
Recent experiments have presented more accurate data on the $ΛΛ$-binding energies of a few $ΛΛ$- hypernuclei. This is important as the $ΛΛ$- bond energies ($ΔB_{ΛΛ}$) of double-$Λ$ hypernuclei provide a measure of the in-medium strength of the $ΛΛ$ interaction. A mass formula, optimized with the newly available $ΛΛ$ binding energy data, is used to estimate the binding energy and bond energy over a wide range of hypernuclei. The $ΔB_{ΛΛ}$ values calculated with this mass formula are in good agreement with the experimental data, predictions of the quark mean-field (QMF) model and the relativisti…
We include the leading charge symmetry breaking contributions into the hyperon-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory up to next-to-leading order. Two low energy constants are determined using the experimentally known differences of Lambda separation energies of 4-Lambda-He and 4-Lambda-H. This allows one to predict the Lambda-neutron scattering lengths for the first time based on data. Various sources of uncertainty are discussed.
We propose a novel method for producing very-neutron-rich hypernuclei and corresponding resonance states by employing charge-exchange reactions via pp($^{12}$C, $^{12}$N $K^+$)n$Λ$ with single-charge-exchange and ppp($^{9}$Be, $^{9}$C $K^+$)nn$Λ$ with double-charge-exchange, both of which produce $ΛK^+$ in a target nucleus. The feasibility of producing very-neutron-rich hypernuclei using the proposed method was analysed by applying an ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics model to a $^6$Li+$^{12}$C reaction at 2 $A$ GeV. The yields of very-neutron-rich hypernuclei, signal-to-background…
We utilize the experimentally known difference of the $Λ$ separation energies of the mirror hypernuclei ${^4_Λ\rm He}$ and ${^4_Λ\rm H}$ to constrain the $Λ$-neutron interaction. We include the leading charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) interaction into our hyperon-nucleon interaction derived within chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order. In particular, we determine the strength of the two arising CSB contact terms by a fit to the differences of the separation energies of these hypernuclei in the $0^+$ and $1^+$ states, respectively. By construction, the resulting interaction descr…
The separation energies of the isospin triplet $^7_Λ\mathrm{He}$, $^7_Λ\mathrm{Li^{*}}$, $^7_Λ$Be, and the $T=1/2$ doublet $^8_Λ$Li, $^8_Λ$Be are investigated within the no-core shell model. Calculations are performed based on a hyperon-nucleon potential derived from chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order. The potential includes the leading charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) interaction in the $Λ$N channel, whose strength has been fixed to the experimentally known difference of the $Λ$ separation energies of the mirror hypernuclei $^4_Λ\mathrm{He}$ and $^4_Λ\mathrm{H}$. It turns ou…
The study of hypernuclei in the quark mean-field model are extended from single-$Λ$ hypernuclei to double-$Λ$ hypernuclei as well as $Ξ$ hypernuclei (double strangeness nuclei), with a broken SU(3) symmetry for the quark confinement potential. The strength of the potential for $u,d$ quarks is constrained by the properties of finite nuclei, while the one for $s$ quark is fixed by the single $Λ$-nucleus potential at the nuclear saturation density, which has a slightly different value. Compared to our previous work, we find that the introduction of such symmetry breaking improves efficiently the …
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