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In this paper, we employ the Variable Phase Approach (VPA) to obtain the scattering phase shifts \( \delta(E, r) \), amplitude function \( A(r) \), and radial wavefunction \( u(r) \) for various channels involved in the astrophysical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Anil Khachi

We have performed a systematical calculation of the pion ($\pi, K, \eta$) and heavy pseudoscalar meson S-wave scattering lengths up to ${\cal O}(p^3)$ in the chiral perturbation theory in the heavy quark symmetry limit. With the three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Yan-Rui Liu , Xiang Liu , Shi-Lin Zhu

[O III]$\lambda\lambda$4960,5008 doublet are often the strongest narrow emission lines in starburst galaxies and quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), and thus are a promising probe to possible variation of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-30 Ge Li , Luming Sun , Xiangjun Chen , Hongyan Zhou

The fine-structure constant, $\alpha$, controls the strength of the electromagnetic interaction. There are extensions of the standard model in which $\alpha$ is dynamical on cosmological length and time-scales. The physics of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Tristan L. Smith , Daniel Grin , David Robinson , Davy Qi

Precise measurement of the $\pi\pi$-phase shift $\delta^0_0(E)$ at very low energies would provide, for the first time, the experimental evidence in favour of or against the existence of a large quark condensate in the QCD vacuum, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Stern

The light-quark mass dependence of the nucleon axial isovector charge ($g_A$) has been studied up to next-to-next-to-leading order, $O(p^4)$, in relativistic chiral perturbation theory using extended-on-mass-shell renormalization, without…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Fernando Alvarado , Luis Alvarez-Ruso

We propose a low energy effective field theory of QCD at the scale of pion mass for the $N_B=2$ sector, $N_B$ being the baryon number, which contains two dibaryon fields in addition to the nucleons and pions. It has a well defined counting,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Joan Soto , Jaume Tarrus

The elastic $\alpha$-$^{12}$C scattering for $l=2$ at low energies is studied in an effective Lagrangian approach. We explicitly include two resonant $2_2^+$ and $2_3^+$ states of $^{16}$O in the scattering amplitudes and construct an $S$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Shung-Ichi Ando

The relative effects of variation of the fine structure constant alpha=e^2/hc and dimensionless strong interaction parameter m_q/Lambda_{QCD} are enhanced 5-6 orders of magnitude in very narrow ultraviolet transition between the ground and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 V. V. Flambaum

We determine two-particle scattering phase shifts and mixing angles for quantum theories defined with lattice regularization. The method is suitable for any nonrelativistic effective theory of point particles on the lattice. In the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bugra Borasoy , Evgeny Epelbaum , Hermann Krebs , Dean Lee , Ulf-G. Meißner

Following the Gauge Theory Bootstrap method proposed in our previous work [arXiv:2309.12402], we compute pion scattering phase shifts for all partial waves with angular momentum $\ell\le 3$ up to 2 GeV and calculate the low energy $\chi$PT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-11 Yifei He , Martin Kruczenski

We show that QED nonlinear effects imply a phase correction to the linear evolution of electromagnetic waves in vacuum. We provide explicit solutions of the modified Maxwell's equations for the propagation of a superposition of two plane…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Albert Ferrando , Humberto Michinel , Marcos Seco , Daniele Tommasini

We improve, in the energy region between $\bar{K}K$ threshold and $\sim~1.4$ GeV, the energy-dependent phase shift analysis of $\pi\pi$ scattering presented in a previous paper. For the S0 wave we have included more data above $\bar{K}K$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Kaminski , J. R. Pelaez , F. J. Yndurain

We use the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy data from Planck to constrain the spatial fluctuations of the fine-structure constant \alpha. Through Thompson scattering of CMB photons, spatial anisotropies of \alpha lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-07 Jon O'Bryan , Joseph Smidt , Francesco De Bernardis , Asantha Cooray

Astrophysical tests of the stability of fundamental couplings, such as the fine-structure constant $\alpha$, are a powerful probe of new physics. Recently these measurements, combined with local atomic clock tests and Type Ia supernova and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 C. J. A. P. Martins , A. M. M. Pinho , P. Carreira , A. Gusart , J. López , C. I. S. A. Rocha

We investigate the $S$-wave scatterings of $\Lambda_c\Lambda_c$ and $\Lambda_{c}\bar \Lambda_{c}$ systems within a unified chiral effective field theory framework up to next-to-leading order. The contact low-energy coupling constants are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhe Liu , Hao Xu , Zhan-Wei Liu , Xiang Liu

Light scalar fields very naturally appear in modern cosmological models, affecting such parameters of Standard Model as electromagnetic fine structure constant $\alpha$, dimensionless ratios of electron or quark mass to the QCD scale,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 V. V. Flambaum , E. V. Shuryak

We apply the low-energy theorems to analyze the recent lattice QCD results for the two-nucleon system at a pion mass of $M_\pi\simeq 450$ MeV obtained by the NPLQCD collaboration. We find that the binding energies of the deuteron and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 V. Baru , E. Epelbaum , A. A. Filin

The recently published E865 data on charged K_e4 decays and Pi-Pi phases are reanalyzed to extract values of the two S-wave scattering lengths, of the subthreshold parameters alpha and beta, of the low-energy constants l3-bar and l4-bar as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Descotes , N. H. Fuchs , L. Girlanda , J. Stern

We calculate the lambda-nucleon scattering phase shifts and mixing angles by applying time-ordered perturbation theory to the manifestly Lorentz-invariant formulation of SU(3) baryon chiral perturbation theory. Scattering amplitudes are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 X. -L. Ren , E. Epelbaum , J. Gegelia