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Electromagnetic corrections to the dominant two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon potential

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We calculate at two-loop order in chiral perturbation theory the electromagnetic corrections to the dominant two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction that is generated by the isoscalar πN\pi N contact-vertex proportional to the large low-energy constant c3c_3. We find that the respective 2πγ2\pi\gamma-exchange potential contains sizeable isospin-breaking components which amount to about -1% of the strongly attractive isoscalar central 2π2\pi-exchange potential. The typical value of these novel charge-independence and charge-symmetry breaking central potentials is 0.30.3 MeV at a nucleon distance of r=mπ1=1.4r= m_\pi^{-1} = 1.4 fm. Our analytical result for this presumably dominant 2πγ2\pi\gamma-exchange interaction is in a form such that it can be easily implemented into phase-shift analyses and few-body calculations.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0605040,
  title  = {Electromagnetic corrections to the dominant two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon potential},
  author = {N. Kaiser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0605040},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Physical Review C (2006): Brief Reports