Abstract: (EDP Sciences)
Low-energy pion–nucleon scattering is relevant for many areas in nuclear and hadronic physics, ranging from the scalar couplings of the nucleon to the long-range part of two-pion-exchange potentials and three-nucleon forces in Chiral Effective Field Theory. In this talk, we show how the fruitful combination of dispersion-theoretical methods, in particular in the form of Roy–Steiner equations, with modern high-precision data on hadronic atoms allows one to determine the pion–nucleon scattering amplitudes at low energies with unprecedented accuracy. Special attention will be paid to the extraction of the pion–nucleon σ-term, and we discuss in detail the current tension with recent lattice results, as well as the determination of the low-energy constants of chiral perturbation theory.cc These proceedings borrow heavily from a previous conference contribution [1], as well as from our original article [2].
  • effective field theory: chiral
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • nucleon: coupling
  • coupling: scalar
  • energy: low
  • pi nucleon: scattering
  • scattering amplitude
  • hadronic atom
  • potential: long-range
  • sigma term