Constraints on a possible dineutron state from pionless EFT

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.07.015zbMATH Open1317.81279arXiv1406.1359OpenAlexW2131710660MaRDI QIDQ2356366FDOQ2356366

Authors: Sebastian König, H.-W. Hammer 

Publication date: 29 July 2015

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the sensitivity of the three-nucleon system to changes in the neutron-neutron scattering length to next-to-leading order in the pionless effective field theory, focusing on the the triton-3He binding energy difference and neutron-deuteron elastic scattering. Due to the appearance of an electromagnetic three-body counterterm at this order, the triton-3He binding energy difference remains consistent with the experimental value even for large positive neutron-neutron scattering lengths while the elastic neutron-deuteron scattering phase shifts are insensitive. We conclude that a bound dineutron cannot be excluded to next-to-leading order in pionless EFT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1359

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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