Related papers: S-wave pi-pi scattering lengths
Studies on hadron interactions from lattice QCD are reviewed. The $S$-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering lengths of the I=0 and I=2 channels are extracted from various lattice determinations of low energy constants in $N_f=2$ chiral perturbation…
The s-wave scattering length for the Positronium-Positronium interaction is estimated semi-phenomenologically with the long-range van der Waals force and the short-range repulsive potential that represents the hard core between two…
In the framework of an effective chiral theory of mesons, pi K scattering is stydied. The scattering lengths, phase shifts, and cross sections are calculated. Theoretical results agree well with data. There is no new parameter in this…
We describe the method for extracting the elastic scattering phase shift from a lattice simulation at an introductory level, for non-lattice practitioners. We consider the scattering in a resonant channel, where the resulting phase shift…
We present technical details of the evaluation of the elastic pi-pi scattering amplitude to two loops in chiral perturbation theory. In particular, we elaborate on the renormalization procedure at the two-loop order and on the evaluation of…
After having announced the statistically significant observation (5.6~$\sigma$) of the new exotic $\pi K$ atom, the DIRAC experiment at the CERN proton synchrotron presents the measurement of the corresponding atom lifetime, based on the…
A reanalysis of $\pi\pi$ amplitudes for all important partial-waves below about 2 GeV is presented. A set of once subtracted dispersion relations with imposed crossing symmetry condition is used to modify unitary multi-channel amplitudes in…
We determine elastic and coupled-channel amplitudes for isospin-1 meson-meson scattering in $P$-wave, by calculating correlation functions using lattice QCD with light quark masses such that $m_\pi = 236$ MeV in a cubic volume of $\sim (4…
The astrophysical $S$-factor for the radiative proton capture reaction on $^7$Be ($S_{17}$) at low energies is affected by the $s$-wave scattering lengths. We report the measurement of elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections for the…
The pion mass difference generates a pronounced cusp in K --> 3 pi decays. As has recently been pointed out by Cabibbo and Isidori, an accurate measurement of the cusp may allow one to pin down the S-wave pi pi scattering lengths to high…
An effective residual interaction for a meson-meson system is computed in lattice QCD. We describe the theoretical framework and present its application to the I=2 channel S-wave interaction of the pi pi system. Scattering phase shifts are…
We present a lattice QCD calculation of phase shift including the chiral and continuum extrapolations in two-flavor QCD. The calculation is carried out for I=2 S-wave $\pi\pi$ scattering. The phase shift is evaluated for two momentum…
We compute the scattering amplitude in Wilson Chiral Perturbation Theory for two flavors. The lattice spacing effects due to the explicit chiral symmetry breaking are kept through O(a^2), and we consider the regime where the quark mass m is…
This paper is focused on two issues: the K\pi spectrum near threshold - the kappa problem -, and the pi\pi spectrum between 1.2 and 1.5 GeV/(c^2) -- the f_0(1370) problem. Both problems will be analysed from the perspective of the $D$ meson…
We present the first determination of $\rho \pi$ scattering, incorporating dynamically-coupled partial-waves, using lattice QCD, a first-principles numerical approach to QCD. Considering the case of isospin-2 $\rho \pi$, we calculate…
We extract the P-wave pi-pi phase shift for five values of pion relative momenta, which gives information on the rho resonance. The Breit-Wigner formula describes the pi-pi phase shift dependence nicely and we extract m(rho)=792(7)(8) MeV…
We present an alternative method for calculating amplitudes for correlated pi pi exchange in the ``sigma'' and rho channel in piN scattering. Starting from a fixed mass meson exchange potential, we introduce the width of the exchanged…
A new unitarization approach is discussed and applied to study the elastic $\pi K$ scattering process. The existence of the light $\kappa$ resonance is firmly established if the scattering length in the I=1/2 channel does not deviate too…
We continue the analysis of S-wave production amplitudes for the reaction pi- p -> pi+ pi- n involving the data obtained by the CERN--Cracow-Munich collaboration on a transversely polarized target at 17.2 GeV/c pi- momentum. This study…
I describe the current status of the theory of pi pi scattering, reviewing in particular recent work on the numerical solution of Roy equations and on the matching between these and the chiral representation. I discuss numerical results on…