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Dispersive and absorptive corrections to the pion-deuteron scattering length

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We present a parameter--free calculation of the dispersive and absorptive contributions to the pion--deuteron scattering length based on chiral perturbation theory. We show that once all diagrams contributing to leading order to this process are included, their net effect provides a small correction to the real part of the pion--deuteron scattering length. At the same time the sizable imaginary part of the pion--deuteron scattering length is reproduced accurately.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0608042,
  title  = {Dispersive and absorptive corrections to the pion-deuteron scattering length},
  author = {V. Lensky and V. Baru and J. Haidenbauer and C. Hanhart and A. Kudryavtsev and U. -G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0608042},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Numerical error corrected. Results for dispersive corrections changed - conclusions unchanged. Version as accepted by Phys. Lett. B