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The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction in a Chiral Effective Field Theory

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106 3. <strong>The</strong> derivation of nuclear forces from chiral Lagrangians<br />

the Lagrangian if one regards their excitation energies to be very large (or, equivalently, if one<br />

considers 7r N scatter<strong>in</strong>g at energies much smaller than the excitation energies). This generates a<br />

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, /<br />

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, /<br />

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Figure 3.16: Ll-resonance saturation of the 7rN LECs C3 and C4. Double solid l<strong>in</strong>e<br />

represents Ll-isobar. For rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g notations see figs. 3.6, 3.14.<br />

series of local pion-nucleon operators of <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g dimension with the coupl<strong>in</strong>g constants fixed by<br />

details of the pion- (nucleon-) resonance <strong>in</strong>teractions. Certa<strong>in</strong>ly, one expects that the resonances<br />

with the lowest excitation energy give the dom<strong>in</strong>ant contributions to the values of the LECs. In<br />

particular, the Ll(1232) with the excitation energy of only about two pion masses is expected<br />

to be quite important for the low-energy pion-nucleon dynamics. This expectation is confirmed<br />

by a phenomenological analyses [200]. It turns out that the value of C3 is dom<strong>in</strong>ated by the Ll<br />

contributions. <strong>The</strong> Ll-isobar also leads to a sizable contribution to C4, whereas the value of Cl is<br />

ma<strong>in</strong>ly saturated by the scalar-isoscalar meson contributions.45<br />

In many approaches to the N N <strong>in</strong>teractions the effects of the Ll-excitations <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>termediate<br />

states are explicitly <strong>in</strong>cluded. Because of the relative small value of the LlN-mass splitt<strong>in</strong>g (293<br />

MeV) such effects might be quite important for the low-energy N N dynamics. Already <strong>in</strong> their<br />

pioneer<strong>in</strong>g work [78], Ord6iiez et al. <strong>in</strong>corporated the lead<strong>in</strong>g effects due to the <strong>in</strong>termediate Llexcitations<br />

treat<strong>in</strong>g the LlN-mass splitt<strong>in</strong>g as a small quantity on the same foot<strong>in</strong>g as the pion<br />

mass. Although the LlN-mass splitt<strong>in</strong>g does not vanish <strong>in</strong> the chiral limit, such a phenomenological<br />

extension of chiral perturbation theory is quite useful <strong>in</strong> many situations and may be<br />

formulated <strong>in</strong> a systematic fashion (the so-called "small scale expansion") [201]. In this approach<br />

one starts from the most general chiral <strong>in</strong>variant Lagrangian for relativistic pions, nucleons and<br />

deltas. To describe the sp<strong>in</strong>- and isosp<strong>in</strong>-3/2 field correspond<strong>in</strong>g to the Ll, one typically uses the<br />

Rarita-Schw<strong>in</strong>ger formalism [202], i.e. one <strong>in</strong>troduces a vector-sp<strong>in</strong>or field W jl (x) that satisfies the<br />

equation of motion<br />

(3.312)<br />

with the subsidiary condition<br />

(3.313)<br />

Furthermore, the Rarita-Schw<strong>in</strong>ger sp<strong>in</strong>ors for the sp<strong>in</strong> 3/2 field are constructed by coupl<strong>in</strong>g sp<strong>in</strong>-<br />

1 vector to sp<strong>in</strong>-1/2 Dirac sp<strong>in</strong>or fields via Clebsch-Gordon coefficients. One then <strong>in</strong>troduces a<br />

complete set of the projection operators (p3/2)jll/ and (PiY\w with i, j = 1,2 onto the sp<strong>in</strong>-3/2<br />

and sp<strong>in</strong>-1/2 components that satisfy the algebra [201]<br />

( P 3/2) jll/ + ( Pn 1/2 ) jll/ + ( P22<br />

1/2 ) jll/ = g jll/ , (3.314)<br />

(3.315)<br />

45 In the one-boson exchange models of the nuclear <strong>in</strong>teraction one typically <strong>in</strong>tro duces the effective (J meson with<br />

a mass of ab out 600 MeV to parametrize the strong pionic correlations observed <strong>in</strong> this channel.

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