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A unitary and causal effective field theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We report on a novel scheme based on the chiral Lagrangian. It is used to analyze pion-nucleon scattering, pion photoproduction, and nucleon Compton scattering. Subthreshold partial-wave amplitudes are calculated in chiral perturbation theory and analytically extrapolated with constraints imposed by electromagnetic-gauge invariance, causality and unitarity. Experimental quantities are reproduced up to energies s1300\sqrt{s}\simeq 1300 MeV in terms of the parameters relevant at order Q3Q^3.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5332,
  title  = {A unitary and causal effective field theory},
  author = {A. M. Gasparyan and M. F. M. Lutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5332},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the MENU 2010 conference, May 31-June 4, 2010, Williamsburg VA, USA

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