Related papers: A model for pion-pion scattering in large-N QCD
Pion scattering and electro-production amplitudes have been computed in a coupled-channel framework incorporating quasi-bound quark-model states, based on the Cloudy Bag model. All relevant low-lying nucleon resonances in the P33, P11, and…
We perform a rigorous analysis of the $\pi K$ scattering at an unphysical pion mass 391 MeV using the Roy-Steiner equations, which satisfy unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry, for the first time. Stable solutions of the Roy-Steiner…
In this talk I summarize a recently proposed mechanism to understand pi pi scattering to 1 GeV. The model is motivated by the 1/Nc expansion to QCD, and includes a current algebra contact term and resonant pole exchanges. Chiral symmetry…
An exploratory study is made of the nucleon-nucleon $s$-wave scattering lengths in quenched lattice QCD with the Wilson quark action. The $\pi$-$N$ and $\pi$-$\pi$ scattering lengths are also calculated for comparison. The calculations are…
First results on the interaction between the $\phi$-meson and the nucleon ($N$) are presented based on the ($2+1$)-flavor lattice QCD simulations with nearly physical quark masses. Using the HAL QCD method, the spacetime correlation of the…
We calculate the coherent dynamical scattering function S_c(q,t;N) of a flexible chain of length N, diffusing through an ordered background of topological obstacles. As an instructive generalization, we also calculate the scattering…
Elastic cross sections are calculated and compared with the data on $\pi^{\pm}$ scattering on $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{58}$Ni, $^{208}$Pb nuclei in the energy range from 130 to 290 MeV. To this end, both the folding optical potential (OP)…
A method is explained through which a pointwise accurate approximation to the pion's valence-quark distribution amplitude (PDA) may be obtained from a limited number of moments. In connection with the single nontrivial moment accessible in…
A crossing symmetric $\pi N$ scattering amplitude is constructed through a complete attachment of two external pions to the dressed nucleon propagator of an underlying $\pi N$ potential model. Our formulation automatically provides…
The Compton scattering on a charged pion is studied using the dispersion relations. Unknown mass, full width and decay width into \gamma \gamma of the sigma meson are found from a fit to the experimental data for the process \gamma+\gamma…
We study an effective field theory of interacting nucleons at distances much greater than the pion's Compton wavelength. In this regime the NN potential is conjectured to be the sum of a delta function and its derivatives. The question we…
The Weinberg theorem for the pion-pion scattering is proved analytically in full detail for quark models in the ladder truncation. The proof is displayed with Feynman diagrams. The axial and vector Ward identities, for the quark propagator…
In a recent paper, Pelaez and Yndurain evaluate some of the low energy observables of pi pi scattering and obtain flat disagreement with our earlier results. The authors work with unsubtracted dispersion relations, so that their results are…
We summarize main points of our recent work where we studied the pion condensation for non-zero isospin chemical potential within a holographic QCD model. We confirmed that the second order phase transition with the mean field exponent…
The pion re-scattering operator for pion production, derived recently in time-ordered perturbation theory, is compared with the one following from the simple S-matrix construction. We show that this construction is equivalent to the…
We perform a non-perturbative lattice calculation of the P-wave pion-pion scattering phase in the rho-meson decay channel using two flavors of maximally twisted mass fermions at pion masses ranging from 480 MeV to 290 MeV. Making use of…
A new evaluation of the universal $\pi\pi$ scattering length relation is used to extract the $\pi\pi$ $s$-wave scattering lengths from threshold pion production data. Previous work has shown that the chiral perturbation series relating…
In this paper, it is shown that the experimental values of the nonextensive scattering entropies $S_L (p)$ and $S_\theta (q)$ for the pion-nucleus ($\pi^0 He, \pi^0 C, \pi^0 O, \pi^0 Ca$) scatterings, in the energy region corresponding to…
We present an investigation of pion-nucleon elastic scattering in the $I\,(J^P) = \frac{3}{2}\,(\frac{3}{2}^+)$ channel using lattice QCD with degenerate up and down, strange and charm quarks with masses tuned to their physical values. We…
In order to model pions of two-flavor QCD we consider a lattice field theory involving two flavors of staggered quarks interacting strongly with U(1) gauge fields. For massless quarks, this theory has an $SU_L(2)\times SU_R(2) \times…