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Chiral effective field theory on the lattice at next-to-leading order

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study nucleon-nucleon scattering on the lattice at next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory. We determine phase shifts and mixing angles from the properties of two-nucleon standing waves induced by a hard spherical wall in the center-of-mass frame. At fixed lattice spacing we test model independence of the low-energy effective theory by computing next-to-leading-order corrections for two different leading-order lattice actions. The first leading-order action includes instantaneous one-pion exchange and same-site contact interactions. The second leading-order action includes instantaneous one-pion exchange and Gaussian-smeared interactions. We find that in each case the results at next-to-leading order are accurate up to corrections expected at higher order.

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@article{arxiv.0712.2990,
  title  = {Chiral effective field theory on the lattice at next-to-leading order},
  author = {Bugra Borasoy and Evgeny Epelbaum and Hermann Krebs and Dean Lee and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2990},
  year   = {2008}
}

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30 pages, 10 figures, published version