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Three nucleons at very low energies

P. F. Bedaque

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9806041

Abstract

We discuss the effective field theory approach to nuclear phenomena with typical momentum below the pion mass. We particularly focus on the three body problem. In the J=3/2 channel,effective field theory is extremelly predictive and we are able to describe the nucleon-deuteron scattering amplitude at the percent level using only two parameters obtained from nucleon-nucleon scattering. We briefly comment onthe J=1/2 channel and the issues related to the non-perturbative renormalization of the three body force.

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