Abstract
We calculate the radiative corrections of order as next-to-leading order corrections in the large nucleon mass expansion to Sirlin’s radiative corrections of order to the neutron lifetime. The calculation is carried out within a quantum field theoretic model of strong low-energy pion-nucleon interactions described by the linear model () with chiral symmetry and electroweak hadron-hadron, hadron-lepton and lepton-lepton interactions for the electron-lepton family with symmetry of the standard electroweak model (SEM). Such a quantum field theoretic model is some kind a hadronized version of the Standard Model. From a gauge invariant set of the Feynman diagrams with one-photon exchanges we reproduce Sirlin’s radiative corrections of order , calculated to leading order in the large nucleon mass expansion, and calculate next-to-leading corrections of order . This confirms Sirlin’s confidence level of the radiative corrections . The contributions of the are taken in the limit of the infinite mass of the scalar isoscalar meson. In such a limit the reproduces the results of the current algebra [S. Weinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 18, 188 (1967)] in the form of effective chiral Lagrangians of pion-nucleon interactions with nonlinear realization of chiral symmetry. In such a limit the is also equivalent to Gasser-Leutwyler’s chiral quantum field theory or chiral perturbation theory with chiral symmetry and the exponential parametrization of a pion-field [(G. Ecker, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 35, 1 (1995)].
1 More- Received 31 March 2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.093006
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