Three-Body Halo States in Effective Field Theory: Renormalization and Three-Body Interactions in the Helium-6 System
Journal article, 2017

In this paper we study the renormalization of Halo effective field theory applied to the Helium-6 halo nucleus seen as an alpha-neutron-neutron three-body state. We include the 0(+) dineutron channel together with both the 3/2(-) and 1/2(-) neutron-alpha channels into the field theory and study all of the six lowest-order three-body interactions that are present. Furthermore, we discuss three different prescriptions to handle the unphysical poles in the P-wave two-body sector. In the simpler field theory without the 1/2(-) channel present we find that the bound-state spectrum of the field theory is renormalized by the inclusion of a single three-body interaction. However, in the field theory with both the 3/2(-) and 1/2(-) included, the system can not be renormalized by only one three-body operator.

Nuclei

Forces

EFT

Scattering

Author

EMIL RYBERG

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

Christian Forssen

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

Lucas Platter

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

University of Tennessee

Few-Body Systems

0177-7963 (ISSN) 1432-5411 (eISSN)

Vol. 58 4 143

Ab initio approach to nuclear structure and reactions (++) (ANSR)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/240603), 2009-12-01 -- 2014-11-30.

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Physical Sciences

DOI

10.1007/s00601-017-1307-1

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