Effective theory of H and He
Aug 20, 2015
35 pages
Published in:
- J.Phys.G 43 (2016) 5, 055106
- Published: Apr 12, 2016
e-Print:
- 1508.05085 [nucl-th]
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Abstract: (IOP)
We present a new perturbative expansion for pionless effective field theory with Coulomb interactions in which at leading order (LO) the spin-singlet nucleon–nucleon channels are taken in the unitarity limit. Presenting results up to next-to-leading order for the Phillips line and the neutron–deuteron doublet-channel phase shift, we find that a perturbative expansion in the inverse scattering lengths converges rapidly. Using a new systematic treatment of the proton–proton sector that isolates the divergence due to one-photon exchange, we renormalize the corresponding contribution to the – binding energy splitting and demonstrate that the Coulomb force in pionless EFT is a completely perturbative effect in the trinucleon bound-state regime. In our new expansion, the LO is exactly isospin-symmetric. At next-to-leading order, we include isospin breaking via the Coulomb force and two-body scattering lengths, and find for the energy splitting .Note:
- 37 pages, 14 figures, published version
- pionless effective field theory
- Coulomb interaction
- unitarity limit
- interaction: Coulomb
- force: Coulomb
- exchange: one-photon
- isospin: symmetry breaking
- splitting
- binding energy
- tritium
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