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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 1S0{}^{1}{S}_{0} 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 3H{}^{3}{\rm{H}}3He{}^{3}\mathrm{He} 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 (EB(3He)EB(3H))NLO=(0.86±0.17)MeV{({E}_{B}{(}^{3}\mathrm{He})-{E}_{B}{(}^{3}{\rm{H}}))}^{\mathrm{NLO}}\quad =(-0.86\pm 0.17)\quad \mathrm{MeV}.
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  • 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