Role ofπ0η′mixing in nuclear charge asymmetry

Abstract

We show that if all aspects of semistrong and electromagnetic particle mixing are properly taken into account, the result is that the ${\pi }^0\eta$ and ${\pi }^0{\eta }^{\prime }$ contributions to charge asymmetry of the nucleon force do not substantially modify the charge asymmetric $\mathrm{NN}$ scattering lengths due to ${\pi }^0\eta$ mixing alone, and the ${\pi }^0{\eta }^{\prime }$ effect is $\sim \frac{1}{3}$ the (already small) ${\pi }^0\eta$ contribution to the ${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{He}$-${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{H}$ mass difference.