Ground state energy of pionic hydrogen to one loop

Jun, 2002
50 pages
Published in:
  • Eur.Phys.J.C 26 (2002) 13-34
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Report number:
  • BUTP-02-07

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate the ground-state energy of the pi- p atom (pionic hydrogen) in the framework of QCD+QED. In particular, we evaluate the strong energy-level shift. We perform the calculation at next-to-leading order in the low-energy expansion in the framework of the relevant effective field theory. The result provides a relation between the strong energy shift and the pion-nucleon S-wave scattering lengths - evaluated in pure QCD - at next-to-leading order in isospin breaking and in the low-energy expansion. We compare our result with available model calculations.
Note:
  • Version accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. C/ Eq. (B8) corrected, comment after Eq. (B11) changed, additional minor changes in the text/ preprint number added
  • pi-: mesic atom
  • hydrogen: mesic atom
  • ground state: energy levels
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • Feynman graph: higher-order
  • pi- p: elastic scattering
  • threshold
  • scattering length
  • effective Lagrangian