Parity violation in two-nucleon systems from pionless effective field theory
ORAL
Abstract
At leading order, there are five independent nucleon-nucleon parity-violating (PV) interactions at low energies, corresponding to the five leading low energy constants (LECs) that mix $S$-wave and $P$-wave channels. These have been studied in the framework of pionless effective field theory (EFT). In this talk, we present our analysis of the higher-order contributions that occur at three derivatives. These correspond to $P$-$D$ transitions as well as corrections to $S$-$P$ transitions. We show that the renormalization group (RG) behavior of the PV LECs in pionless EFT is driven by the RG scaling of parity-conserving LECs. Under certain assumptions, this constrains the higher order LECs and may reduce the number of experiments needed to understand low energy PV.
*Portions of this work were done in consultation with Matthias Schindler, Hersh Singh, Roxanne Springer, and Jared Vanasse. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Award Number DE- FG02-05ER41368.
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