np-->dγ for big-bang nucleosynthesis
Abstract
The cross section for np-->dγ is calculated at energies relevant to big-bang nucleosynthesis using the recently developed effective field theory that describes the two-nucleon sector. The E1 amplitude is computed up to N3LO and depends only upon nucleon-nucleon phase shift data. In contrast, the M1 contribution is computed up to next-to-leading order, and the four-nucleon-one-magnetic-photon counterterm that enters is determined by the cross section for cold neutron capture. The uncertainty in the calculation for nucleon energies up to E~1 MeV is estimated to be <~4%.
- Publication:
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Physical Review C
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nucl-th/9907042
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvC..60f5205C
- Keywords:
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- 26.35.+c;
- 13.75.Cs;
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis;
- Nucleon-nucleon interactions;
- Nuclear Theory;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 3 figures, latex