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Phys. Rev. C 71, 024001 (2005) [11 pages]

Isospin dependence of the three-nucleon force

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E. Epelbaum1,*, Ulf-G. Meissner2,3,†, and J. E. Palomar4,‡
1Jefferson Laboratory, Theory Division, Newport News, VA 23606
2Universität Bonn, Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen-und Kernphysik (Theorie), D-53115 Bonn, Germany
3Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institut für Kernphysik (Theorie), D-52425 Jülich, Germany
4Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Universidad de Valencia, Institutos de Investigacion de Paterna, E-46071 Valencia, Spain

Received 15 July 2004; published 2 February 2005

We classify A-nucleon forces according to their isospin dependence and discuss the most general isospin structure of the three-nucleon force. We derive the leading and subleading isospin-breaking corrections to the three-nucleon force using the framework of chiral effective field theory.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.71.024001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.71.024001
PACS:
21.30.-x, 21.45.+v, 25.10.+s

*epelbaum@jlab.org.

meissner@itkp.uni-bonn.de.

palomar@condor3.ific.uv.es.