Effective Field Theory Analysis of Three-Boson Systems at Next-To-Next-To-Leading Order |
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Authors: | Chen Ji Daniel R Phillips |
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Institution: | 1. TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3, Canada 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
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Abstract: | We use an effective field theory for short-range forces (SREFT) to analyze systems of three identical bosons interacting via a two-body potential that generates a scattering length, a, which is large compared to the range of the interaction, ?. The amplitude for the scattering of one boson off a bound state of the other two is computed to next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO) in the ?/a expansion. At this order, two pieces of three-body data are required as input in order to renormalize the amplitude (for fixed a). We apply our results to a model system of three Helium-4 atoms, which are assumed to interact via the TTY potential. We generate N2LO predictions for atom-dimer scattering below the dimer breakup threshold using the bound-state energy of the shallow Helium-4 trimer and the atom-dimer scattering length as our two pieces of three-body input. Based on the convergence pattern of the SREFT expansion, as well as differences in the predictions of two renormalization schemes, we conclude that our N2LO phase- shift predictions will receive higher-order corrections of < 0.2 %. In contrast, the prediction of SREFT for the binding energy of the “deep” trimer of Helium-4 atoms displays poor convergence. |
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