Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2002-03-01
Phys.Rev. C65 (2002) 057001
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in The Physical Review C
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.65.057001
The empirical value of the real part of the pion-deuteron scattering length can be well understood in terms of the dominant isovector $\pi N$-double scattering contribution. We calculate in chiral perturbation theory all one-pion loop corrections to this double scattering term which in the case of $\pi N$-scattering close the gap between the current-algebra prediction and the empirical value of the isovector threshold T-matrix $T_{\pi N}^-$. In addition to closing this gap there is in the $\pi d$-system a loop-induced off-shell correction for the exchanged virtual pion. Its coordinate space representation reveals that it is equivalent to $2\pi$-exchange in the deuteron. We evaluate the chirally corrected double scattering term and the off-shell contribution with various realistic deuteron wave functions. We find that the off-shell correction contributes at most -8% and that the isovector double scattering term explains at least 90% of the empirical value of the real part of the $\pi d$-scattering length.
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