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Implementing the finite-volume three-pion scattering formalism across all non-maximal isospins

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2025-08-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a numerical exploration of the relativistic-field-theory (RFT) formalism for three pions with all possible values of non-maximal isospin, Iπππ=2I_{\pi\pi\pi} = 2, 11 and 00. Using the generic-isospin extension of the RFT formalism and applying our open-source Python library to implement the framework, we predict a range of three-pion energies for illustrative values of the two-to-two scattering amplitudes for various finite-volume irreps also with non-zero total momentum P\boldsymbol P in the finite-volume frame. The results restrict attention to the case of a vanishing intrinsic three-body interaction so that the spectra can be understood as a baseline. In future lattice QCD calculations, deviations from these values will be translated into evidence for intrinsic three-body effects in the various scattering channels.

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@article{arxiv.2508.11627,
  title  = {Implementing the finite-volume three-pion scattering formalism across all non-maximal isospins},
  author = {Athari Alotaibi and Maxwell T. Hansen and Raúl A. Briceño},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11627},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables