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per should be tangible and important for a correct analysis of experimental data on searches
of contributions of interactions BSM with an accuracy of a few parts of 10
−5
. We give also a
comparative analysis of the results obtained in this work with those in [4,47–54]. This allows us
to argue that the corrections, caused by pseudoscalar interactions, calculated for the correlation
coefficients of the neutron β
−
–decays, induced by correlations of the electron spin with the neu-
tron spin and 3-momenta of decay fermions with standard correlation structures introduced by
Jackson et al. [24], are fully new. Moreover all terms in Eq. (A.6) with correlation structures be-
yond the standard ones by Jackson et al. [24] and proportional to the ef
fective coupling constants
C
ps
and C
ps
were never calculated in literature. In the Appendix we give a detailed calculation
of the contributions of pseudoscalar interactions caused by the OPP exchange and BSM to the
correlation coefficients of the neutron β
−
–decays for a polarized neutron, a polarized electron
and an unpolarized proton, completing the analysis of contributions of interactions BSM to the
correlation coefficients of the neutron β
−
–decays carried out in [10–12].
2. Amplitude of the neutron β
−
–decay with contributions of OPP exchange and
pseudoscalar interaction BSM
Since the expected order of contributions of pseudoscalar interactions of about 10
−5
, we take
them into account in the linear approximation additively to the corrections of order 10
−4
−10
−3
calculated in [1–34]. In such an approximation and following [9,11,12]the amplitude of the
neutron β
−
–decay we take in the form
M(n →pe
−
¯ν
e
)
=−
G
F
√
2
V
ud
p(
k
p
,σ
p
)|J
(+)
μ
(0)|n(
k
n
,σ
n
)
¯u
e
(
k
e
,σ
e
)γ
μ
(1 −γ
5
)v
¯ν
(
k
¯ν
, +
1
2
)
+¯u
p
(
k
p
,σ
p
)γ
5
u
n
(
k
n
,σ
n
)
¯u
e
(
k
e
,σ
e
)(C
p
+
¯
C
P
γ
5
)v
¯ν
(
k
¯ν
, +
1
2
)
, (1)
where G
F
and V
ud
are the Fermi couping constant and the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa
(CKM) matrix element [14]. Then, p(
k
p
, σ
p
)|J
(+)
μ
(0)|n(
k
n
, σ
n
) is the matrix element of the
charged hadronic current J
(+)
μ
(0) = V
(+)
μ
(0) − A
(+)
μ
(0), where V
(+)
μ
(0) and A
(+)
μ
(0) are the
charged vector and axial–vector hadronic currents [15,18,19]. The fermions in the initial and
final states are described by Dirac bispinor wave functions u
n
, u
p
, u
e
and v
¯ν
of free fermions
[9,62]. In the second term of Eq. (1)we take into account the contribution of the pseudoscalar
interaction BSM [22–27] with two complex phenomenological coupling constants C
P
and
¯
C
P
in the notation of [9,11,12].
For the analysis of contrib
utions of pseudoscalar interactions to the neutron β
−
–decays for a
polarized neutron, a polarized electron and an unpolarized proton we define the matrix element
p(
k
p
, σ
p
)|J
(+)
μ
(0)|n(
k
n
, σ
n
) as follows
p(
k
p
,σ
p
)|J
(+)
μ
(0)|n(
k
n
,σ
n
)
=¯u
p
(
k
p
,σ
p
)
γ
μ
(1 +λγ
5
) +
2Mλq
μ
m
2
π
−q
2
−i0
γ
5
u
n
(
k
n
,σ
n
), (2)
where λ is the axial coupling constant with recent experimental value λ =−1.27641(45)
stat.
(33)
syst.
[41]. The first term in Eq. (1)is written in agreement with the standard V −A effective
theory of weak interactions [15,18,19](see also [20,21]). The term proportional to q
μ
γ
5
defines
the contribution of the OPP exchange, caused by strong low–energy interactions (see also [18])