Proton decay in a nucleus: nonrelativistic treatment of nuclear effects

In this paper, proton decay in a large nucleus is studied in the framework of SU(5) grand unification theory (GUT). By using a method based upon the Green s-function technique of many-body physics, nuclear effects on spectator and pole terms are computed. The decay width in the nucleus is found to b...

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Autores: Fernández Pérez, Luis Antonio, Fernández Álvarez-Estrada, Ramón, Sánchez Gómez, J. L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1983
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/65023
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/65023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Astronomy and astrophysics
Physics
particles and fields
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:In this paper, proton decay in a large nucleus is studied in the framework of SU(5) grand unification theory (GUT). By using a method based upon the Green s-function technique of many-body physics, nuclear effects on spectator and pole terms are computed. The decay width in the nucleus is found to be practically the same as in free space. However, nuclear effects are of considerable importance concerning the positron spectrum. A densitycorrelation expansion is introduced which is useful for carrying out a systematic study of nuclear effects in proton decay in a large nucleus. The method presented here can be easily extended to other GUT's or supersymmetric GUT's.