An Effective Field Theory for the Three-Body System
Abstract
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We study the scattering of a particle from a bound pair in an effective field theory using a distorted-wave renormalisation group method to find the power-counting for the three-body force terms. We find that three-body terms appear at lower orders than naively expected. They start with a marginal term that varies as a logarithm rather than a power of the energy scales in the problem. The marginal term has important implications for the three-body problem in nuclear physics.
4 pages. Talk given at the 18th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Bled, Slovenia, 8-14 September, 2002
4 pages. Talk given at the 18th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Bled, Slovenia, 8-14 September, 2002