The Three-Boson System with Short-Range Interactions

Details The Three-Boson System with Short-Range Interactions The Three-Boson System with Short-Range Interactions

1998-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9811046v1

Nucl.Phys. A646 (1999) 444-466

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

24 pages, RevTex, 15 PS figures included with epsf.sty

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9474(98)00650-2

We discuss renormalization of the non-relativistic three-body problem with short-range forces. The problem is non-perturbative at momenta of the order of the inverse of the two-body scattering length. An infinite number of graphs must be summed, which leads to a cutoff dependence that does not appear in any order in perturbation theory. We argue that this cutoff dependence can be absorbed in one local three-body force counterterm and compute the running of the three-body force with the cutoff. This allows a calculation of the scattering of a particle and the two-particle bound state if the corresponding scattering length is used as input. We also obtain a model-independent relation between binding energy of a shallow three-body bound state and this scattering length. We comment on the power counting that organizes higher-order corrections and on relevance of this result for the effective field theory program in nuclear and molecular physics.

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