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How (not) to renormalize integral equations with singular potentials in effective field theory

Nuclear Theory 2018-11-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss the connection between the perturbative and non-perturbative renormalization and related conceptual issues in the few-nucleon sector of the low-energy effective field theory of the strong interactions. General arguments are supported by examples from effective theories with and without pions as dynamical degrees of freedom. A quantum mechanical potential with explicitly specified short- and long-range parts is considered as an "underlying fundamental theory" and the corresponding effective field theory potential is constructed. Further, the problem of the effective field theoretical renormalization of the Skornyakov-Ter-Martyrosian equation is revisited.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02646,
  title  = {How (not) to renormalize integral equations with singular potentials in effective field theory},
  author = {E. Epelbaum and A. M. Gasparyan and J. Gegelia and Ulf-G. Meißner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02646},
  year   = {2018}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures

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