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The triton point charge radius is calculated to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in pionless effective field theory ($\mathrm{EFT}(\not{\!\pi})$), yielding a prediction of $1.14\pm0.19$ fm (leading order), $1.59\pm0.08$ fm (next-to…

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