Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-06-17
Eur.Phys.J.A18:653-666,2003
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
24 pages, latex, no figures, corrected according to the version accepted for publication in EPJA
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2003-10095-1
We consider pionic hydrogen A_(pi p), the bound pi^- p state. Within the quantum field theoretic and relativistic covariant approach we calculate the shift and width of the energy level of the ground state of pionic hydrogen caused by strong low-energy interactions treated perturbatively. The generalization of the Deser-Goldberger-Baumann-Thirring (DGBT) formulas (Phys. Rev. 96, 774 (1954)) is given. The generalized DGBT formulas for the energy level displacement of the ground state of pionic hydrogen contain the non-perturbative and model-independent correction about 1%, caused by the relativistic covariant smearing of the wave function of the ground state around origin. This non-perturbative correction is very important for the precise extraction of the S-wave scattering lengths of pion-nucleon scattering from the experimental data on the energy level displacements in pionic hydrogen by the PSI Collaboration. In addition the shift of the energy level of the ground state of pionic hydrogen is improved by the second order correction of strong low-energy interactions which is about 0.1%. This testifies the applicability of the perturbative treatment of strong low-energy interactions to the analysis of pionic hydrogen. We show that the width of the energy level of the ground state of pionic hydrogen is valid to all order of perturbation theory in strong low-energy interactions.
Faber Manfried
Hirtl Albert
Ivanov Andrei N.
Marton Johann
Troitskaya Natalia I.
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