The proton-proton reaction, solar neutrinos, and a relativistic field theoretic model of the deuteron
Abstract
In a series of recent papers, Ivanov et al. and Oberhummer et al. have calculated the rate for the p + p -> d + e+ + ve reaction with a zero-range four-fermion effective interaction and find a result 2.9 times higher than the standard value calculated from non-relativistic potential theory. Their procedure is shown to give a wrong answer because their assumed interaction disagrees with low-energy pp scattering data.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics A
- Pub Date:
- February 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0375-9474(97)00404-1
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9707320
- Bibcode:
- 1997NuPhA.625..893B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, LaTeX (uses elsart.sty) to appear in Nuclear Physics A