THE OKAMOTO-NOLEN-SCHIFFER ANOMALY WITHOUT RHO-OMEGA MIXING

We examine the effect of isospin-violating meson-nucleon coupling cons tants and of pi-eta mixing on the binding-energy differences of mirror nuclei in a model that possesses no contribution from rho-omega mixin g. The He-3-H-3 binding-energy difference is computed in a nonrelativi stic approach using a realistic wave function. We find the He-3-H-3 bi nding-energy difference very sensitive to the short-distance behavior of the nucleon-nucleon potential. We conclude that for the typically h ard Bonn form factors such models cannot account for the observed bind ing-energy difference in the three-nucleon system. For the medium-mass region (A = 15-41) the binding-energy differences of mirror nuclei ar e computed using a relativistic mean-field approximation to the Waleck a model. We obtain large binding-energy differences - of the order of several hundred keV - arising from the pseudoscalar sector, Two effect s are primarily responsible for this new finding: a) the inclusion of isospin breaking in the pion-nucleon coupling constant and b) the in-m edium enhancement of the small components of the bound-state wave func tions, We look for off-shell ambiguities in these results and find the m to be large; while 70-85% of the anomaly can be explained with a pse udoscalar coupling only 30% of it can be accounted for with a pseudove ctor vertex.