The axion-baryon coupling in SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory

Autor: Feng-Kun Guo, Thomas Vonk, Ulf-G. Meißner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 8, Pp 1-40 (2021)
Journal of high energy physics 2021(8), 24 (2021). doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2021)024
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2021)024
Popis: In the past, the axion-nucleon coupling has been calculated in the framework of SU(2) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory up to third order in the chiral power counting. Here, we extend these earlier studies to the case of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory with SU(3) flavor symmetry and derive the axion coupling to the full SU(3) baryon octet, showing that the axion also significantly couples to hyperons. As studies on dense nuclear matter suggest the possible existence of hyperons in stellar objects such as neutron stars, our results should have phenomenological implications related to the so-called axion window.
Comment: 45 pages, 1 figure
Databáze: OpenAIRE