Ground state energy of pionic hydrogen to one loop
Jun, 2002
50 pages
Published in:
- Eur.Phys.J.C 26 (2002) 13-34
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0206068 [hep-ph]
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
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