S and D-wave phase shifts in isospin-2 pi pi scattering from lattice QCD

Mar, 2012
33 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 034031
e-Print:
Report number:
  • JLAB-THY-12-1504,
  • TCDMATH-12-03

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The isospin-2 pi pi system provides a useful testing ground for determining elastic hadron scattering parameters from finite-volume spectra obtained using lattice QCD computations. A reliable determination of the excited state spectrum of two pions in a cubic box follows from variational analysis of correlator matrices constructed using a large basis of operators. A general operator construction is presented which respects the symmetries of a multi-hadron system in flight. This is applied to the case of pi pi and allows for the determination of the scattering phase-shifts at a large number of kinematic points, in both S-wave and D-wave, within the elastic region. The technique is demonstrated with a calculation at a pion mass of 396 MeV, where the elastic scattering is found to be well described by a scattering length parameterisation.
Note:
  • Tables of little-group CGCs in ancillary file/ v2: minor changes to reflect published version
  • 12.38.Gc
  • 14.40.Be
  • pi pi: elastic scattering
  • partial wave
  • phase shift
  • isospin: 2
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • lattice
  • finite size
  • operator
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