Renormalization group analysis of the chiral pion production operator for NN\to d\pi

Abstract

We are interested in the consistency between the cutoff, chiral symmetry, and the power counting. For this purpose, we apply the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) to an operator and then decrease the Wilsonian cutoff. As an example, we study the s-wave pion production operator for NN\to d\pi, derived in chiral perturbation theory. We find that the renormalized part of the RG effective operator is accurately absorbed by chiral counter terms of higher order with natural coefficients. Thus, the use of the (sharp) cutoff regularization does not require us to introduce chiral-symmetry-breaking counter terms, at least in the case of the NN\to d\pi reaction.