Neutron-proton radiative capture, photo-magnetic and anti-neutrino disintegration of the deuteron in the relativistic field theory model of the deuteron

Abstract

The cross sections for the M1-capture n + p -> D + gamma, the photo-magnetic and anti-neutrino disintegration of the deuteron are evaluated in the relativistic field theory model of the deuteron (RFMD). The cross section for M1-capture is evaluated by taking into account the contributions of chiral one-meson loop corrections and the Delta(1232) resonance. The cross sections for the photo-magnetic and anti-neutrino disintegration of the deuteron are evaluated by accounting for final-state interaction of the nucleon pair in the spinsinglet S-wave state. The amplitudes of low-energy elastic np and nn scattering contributing to these processes are obtained in terms of the S-wave scattering lengths and the effective ranges. This relaxes substantially the statement by Bahcall and Kamionkowski (Nucl. Phys. A625 (1997) 893) that the RFMD is unable to describe a non-zero effective range for low-energy elastic nucleon-nucleon scattering. The cross sections for the anti-neutrino disintegration of the deuteron averaged over the anti-neutrino energy spectrum agree good with experimental data.