Ab initio calculation of charge-symmetry breaking in A=7 and 8 Λ hypernuclei

Abstract

The separation energies of the isospin triplet $^7_\Lambda\mathrm{He}$, $^7_\Lambda \mathrm{Li^{*}}$, $^7_\Lambda$Be, and the $T=1/2$ doublet $^8_\Lambda$Li, $^8_\Lambda$Be are investigated within the no-core shell model. Calculations are performed based on a hyperon-nucleon potential derived from chiral effective field theory at next-to-leading order. The potential includes the leading charge-symmetry breaking (CSB) interaction in the $\Lambda $N channel, whose strength has been fixed to the experimentally known difference of the $\Lambda$ separation energies of the mirror hypernuclei $^4_\Lambda \mathrm{He}$ and $^4_\Lambda \mathrm{H}$. It turns out that the CSB predicted for the $A=7$ systems is small and agrees with the splittings deduced from the empirical binding energies within the experimental uncertainty. In case of the $A=8$ doublet, the computed CSB is somewhat larger than the available experimental value. Using other experimental input for $A=4$ can change this prediction moving it closer to experiment.