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A renormalisation-group treatment of two-body scattering

Michael C. Birse, Judith A. McGovern, Keith G. Richardson

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9911048

Abstract

A Wilsonian renormalisation group is used to study nonrelativistic two-body scattering by a short-ranged potential. We identify two fixed points: a trivial one and one describing systems with a bound state at zero energy. The eigenvalues of the linearised renormalisation group are used to assign a systematic power-counting to terms in the potential near each of these fixed points. The expansion around the nontrivial fixed point is shown to be equivalent to the effective-range expansion.

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