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Nucl. Phys. At. Energy 2015, volume 16, issue 2, pages 136-143.
Section: Nuclear Physics.
Received: 9.10.2014; Accepted: 11.06.2015; Published online: 20.07.2015.
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https://doi.org/10.15407/jnpae2015.02.136

Charge dependence of the pion-nucleon coupling constant

V. A. Babenko*, N. M. Petrov

M.M. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

*Corresponding author. E-mail address: pet2@ukr.net

Abstract: On the basis of the Yukawa potential we study the pion-nucleon coupling constants for the neutral and charged pions assuming that nuclear forces at low energies are mainly determined by the exchange of virtual pions. We obtain the charged pseudovector pion-nucleon coupling constant f2π± = 0.0804(7) by making the use of experimental low-energy scattering parameters for the singlet pp- and np-scattering, and also by use of the neutral pseudovector pion-nucleon coupling constant f2π0 = 0.0749(7). Corresponding value of the charged pseudoscalar pion-nucleon coupling constant g2π0 / 4π = 14.55(13) is also determined. This calculated value of the charged pseudoscalar pion-nucleon coupling constant is in fully agreement with the experimental constant g2π0 / 4π = 14.52(26) obtained by the Uppsala Neutron Research Group. Our results show considerable charge splitting of the pion-nucleon coupling constant.

Keywords: nuclear forces, π-mesons, pp- and np-scattering, pion-nucleon constant.

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