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On two nucleons near unitarity with perturbative pions

Journal Article · · European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online)
 [1];  [2]
  1. The George Washington University, Washington, DC (United States); University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI (United States)
  2. The George Washington University, Washington, DC (United States)
We explore the impact of perturbative pions on the Unitarity Expansion in the two-nucleon S-waves of Chiral Effective Field Theory at next-to-next-to leading order (N2LO). Pion exchange explicitly breaks the nontrivial fixed point’s universality, i.e. invariance of S waves under both conformal and Wigner’s combined SU(4) spin–isospin transformations. On the other hand, Unitarity explicitly breaks chiral symmetry. The two seem incompatible in their respective exact-symmetry limits. χEFT with Perturbative Pions in the Unitarity Expansion resolves the apparent conflict in the Unitarity Window (phase shifts 45° ≲ δ(k) ≲ 135°), i.e. around momenta most relevant for low-energy nuclear systems. Its only LO scale is the scattering momentum; NLO adds only scattering length, effective range and non-iterated one-pion exchange (OPE); and N2LO only once-iterated OPE. Agreement in the 1S0 channel is very good.
Research Organization:
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0015393
OSTI ID:
3021440
Journal Information:
European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online), Journal Name: European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online) Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 61; ISSN 1434-601X
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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