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Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions on the Lattice

Silas R. Beane, Martin J. Savage

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0202013

Abstract

We consider the nucleon-nucleon potential in quenched and partially-quenched QCD. The leading one-meson exchange contribution to the potential is found to fall off exponentially at long-distances, in contrast with the Yukawa-type behaviour found in QCD. This unphysical component of the two-nucleon potential has important implications for the extraction of nuclear properties from lattice simulations.

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