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Strange Neutral Currents in Nuclei

M. T. Ressell, G. J. Mathews, M. B. Aufderheide. S. D. Bloom, D. A. Resler

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9512012

Abstract

We examine the effects on the nuclear neutral current Gamow-Teller (GT) strength of a finite contribution from a polarized strange quark sea. We perform nuclear shell model calculations of the neutral current GT strength for a number of nuclei likely to be present during stellar core collapse. We compare the GT strength when a finite strange quark contribution is included to the strength without such a contribution. As an example, the process of neutral current nuclear de-excitation via νν pair production is examined for the two cases.

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