Up-to N$^3$LO heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory calculation for the M1 properties of three-nucleon systems

TL;DR

This paper employs N$^3$LO heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory to calculate magnetic moments and radiative neutron capture in three-nucleon systems, showing good agreement with experimental data and analyzing model dependence.

Contribution

It introduces a N$^3$LO meson exchange current calculation for M1 properties in three-nucleon systems using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, including model dependence analysis.

Findings

Results agree well with experimental data.

Strong correlation with effective range parameters.

Small model dependence observed.

Abstract

M1 properties, comprising magnetic moments and radiative capture of thermal neutron observables, are studied in two- and three-nucleon systems. We utilize meson exchange current derived up to N$^3$LO using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory a la Weinberg. Calculations have been performed for several qualitatively different realistic nuclear Hamiltonians, which permits us to analyze model dependence of our results. Our results are found to be strongly correlated with the effective range parameters such as binding energies and the scattering lengths. Taking into account such correlation, the results are in good agreement with the experimental data with small model-dependence.