A phenomenological determination of the pion-nucleon scattering lengths from pionic hydrogen
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-02-10 v1
Abstract
A model independent expression for the electromagnetic corrections to a phenomenological hadronic pion-nucleon scattering length, extracted from pionic hydrogen, is obtained. In a non-relativistic approach and using an extended charge distribution, these corrections are derived up to terms of order (alpha)**2 log(alpha) in the limit of a short-range hadronic interaction. We infer a charged pion-proton scattering length of 0.0870(5) in units of inverse pion mass, which gives for the charged pion-proton-neutron coupling, through the GMO relation, a value of 14.04(17).
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411230,
title = {A phenomenological determination of the pion-nucleon scattering lengths from pionic hydrogen},
author = {T. E. O. Ericson and B. Loiseau and S. Wycech},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411230},
year = {2009}
}
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Invited talk at the 10th International Symposium on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2004), Beijing, China, August 29 - September 4, 2004