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.
Teng, Yu-Ping and Grießhammer, Harald W.. "On two nucleons near unitarity with perturbative pions." European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online), vol. 61, no. 9, Sep. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01675-6
Teng, Yu-Ping, & Grießhammer, Harald W. (2025). On two nucleons near unitarity with perturbative pions. European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online), 61(9). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01675-6
Teng, Yu-Ping, and Grießhammer, Harald W., "On two nucleons near unitarity with perturbative pions," European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online) 61, no. 9 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01675-6
@article{osti_3021440,
author = {Teng, Yu-Ping and Grießhammer, Harald W.},
title = {On two nucleons near unitarity with perturbative pions},
annote = {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.},
doi = {10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01675-6},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3021440},
journal = {European Physical Journal. A, Hadrons and Nuclei (Online)},
issn = {ISSN 1434-601X},
number = {9},
volume = {61},
place = {United States},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
year = {2025},
month = {09}}
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