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Higher-order calculations of electron-deuteron scattering in nuclear effective theory

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Motivated by recent advances in the application of effective field theory techniques to light nuclei we revisit the problem of electron-deuteron scattering in these approaches. By sidestepping problems with the description of electron-nucleon scattering data in effective field theories, we show that the effective theory expansion for deuteron physics converges well over a wide range of momentum transfers. The resultant description of the physics of the two-nucleon system is good up to virtual photon momenta of order 700 MeV.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0304046,
  title  = {Higher-order calculations of electron-deuteron scattering in nuclear effective theory},
  author = {Daniel R. Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0304046},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures