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Renormalization of the Three-Body System with Short-Range Interactions

P. F. Bedaque, H. -W. Hammer, U. van Kolck

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9809025

Abstract

We discuss renormalization of the non-relativistic three-body problem with short-range forces. The problem becomes non-perturbative at momenta of the order of the inverse of the two-body scattering length, and an infinite number of graphs must be summed. This summation leads to a cutoff dependence that does not appear in any order in perturbation theory. We argue that this cutoff dependence can be absorbed in a single three-body counterterm and compute the running of the three-body force with the cutoff. We comment on relevance of this result for the effective field theory program in nuclear and molecular physics.

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