Towards a high-precision calculation for the pion-nucleus scattering lengths |
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Authors: | S Liebig V Baru F Ballout C Hanhart A Nogga |
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Institution: | 1.Institut für Kernphysik (Theorie), Institute for Advanced Simulation and Jülich Centre for Hadron Physics,Forschungszentrum Jülich,Jülich,Germany;2.Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics,Moscow,Russia |
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Abstract: | We calculate the leading isospin-conserving few-nucleon contributions to pion scattering off 2H, 3He, and 4He. We demonstrate that the strong contributions to the pion-nucleus scattering lengths can be controlled theoretically to
an accuracy of a few percent for isoscalar nuclei and of 10% for isovector nuclei. In particular, we find the π-3He scattering length to be (62 ± 4 ± 7) × 10−3
m
π−1 where the uncertainties are due to ambiguities in the π-N scattering lengths and few-nucleon effects, respectively. To establish this accuracy we need to identify a suitable power
counting for pion-nucleus scattering. For this purpose we study the dependence of the two-nucleon contributions to the scattering
length on the binding energy of 2H. Furthermore, we investigate the relative size of the leading two-, three-, and four-nucleon contributions. For the numerical
evaluation of the pertinent integrals, a Monte Carlo method suitable for the momentum space is devised. We observe that, so
far, no power counting is able to provide a quantitative understanding of the relative strength of N- and (N + 1)]]-nucleon
operators. Empirically, we find a relative suppression by a factor of 5 compared to a factor of 50 predicted from dimensional
analysis. On the other hand, the relative importance of different contributions within each class of N-nucleon operators can
be understood within Weinberg counting. The relevance of our findings for the extraction of the isoscalar π-N scattering length from pionic 2H and 4He is outlined. We also discuss the applicability of heavy pion effective field to the π-2H system. |
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