Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-04-05
Phys.Lett.B513:269-272,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages including 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00753-5
The influence of the hadronic \pi\pi interaction on the wave functions of pionium (the Coulomb bound \pi^+\pi^- system) at distances less than 10 fm is calculated for s-states with principal quantum numbers n<5. Hadronic \pi\pi potentials are used that reproduce the scattering phase shifts of two-loop chiral perturbation theory. The pionium wave functions \psi_n (r) are obtained by integrating the coupled Schr\"odinger equations for the (\pi^+\pi^-,\pi^0\pi^0) system. We find that, for r<10 fm, n^{3/2} \psi_n (r) is practically independent of n. From this we conclude that the production rates of the s-states of pionium are proportional to n^{-3}, a result needed for the interpretation of the DIRAC experiment currently running at CERN.
Gashi A.
Rasche Guenther
Woolcock W. S.
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