Renormalization of chiral two-pion exchange NN interactions with Delta-excitations: Central Phases and the Deuteron
Abstract
The renormalization of the chiral np interaction with Delta-excitations in intermediate states is considered at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO) for central waves. The inclusion of the Delta-excitation as an explicit degree of freedom improves the convergence properties of the effective field theory results for np scattering with respect to Delta-less theory, and allows the existence of a deuteron bound state in the infinite cut-off limit. The 1S0 singlet and 3S1 triplet phase shifts reproduce data for p ~ mpi. The role of spectral function regularization is also discussed.
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