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A renormalisation-group treatment of two-body scattering

Nuclear Theory 2009-12-04 v1

Abstract

A Wilsonian renormalisation group is used to study nonrelativistic two-body scattering by a short-ranged potential. We identify two fixed points: a trivial one and one describing systems with a bound state at zero energy. The eigenvalues of the linearised renormalisation group are used to assign a systematic power-counting to terms in the potential near each of these fixed points. The expansion around the nontrivial fixed point is shown to be equivalent to the effective-range expansion.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9911048,
  title  = {A renormalisation-group treatment of two-body scattering},
  author = {Michael C. Birse and Judith A. McGovern and Keith G. Richardson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9911048},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages (LaTeX, aipproc), 1 figure (epsf); talk presented at the International Workshop on Hadron Physics "Effective Theories of Low Energy QCD", Coimbra, Portugal, September, 1999 (shorter version also presented at MENU'99, Zuoz, Switzerland)