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Effective Field Theory Approach to Pionium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The various dynamical scales below the pion mass involved in π+\pi^{+} π\pi^{-} atoms are sequentially integrated out using non-relativistic effective field theory techniques. This allows us to systematically organise the corrections to the energy levels and decay width. We present our results in terms of a single unknown constant which may be obtained by matching to the Chiral Lagrangian with electromagnetic interactions at two loops.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9905543,
  title  = {Effective Field Theory Approach to Pionium},
  author = {D. Eiras and J. Soto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9905543},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages, 4 figures, uses feynmf.sty and feynmf.mf, minor corrections in a few formulas, the text and references