Abstract
Contributions of the direct quark mechanism are studied in the non-mesonic weak decays of light hypernuclei. The ΛN → NN transition is described by the one pion exchange mechanism and the direct quark mechanism, induced by the four-quark vertices in the effective weak Hamiltonian. By employing a realistic wave function of the Λ inside the hypernuclei, non-mesonic decay rates of Λ 4H, Λ 4He, and Λ 5He are calculated. The results show that the direct quark mechanism is significantly large and gives a large ΔI = 3 2 contribution in the J = 0 channel. The relative phase between the one-pion exchange and the direct-quark contributions is determined so that the effective weak Hamiltonian for quarks gives both of them consistently. We find that the sum of these two contributions reproduce the current available experimental data fairly well.
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