Improving the Convergence of NN Effective Field Theory.pdfVIP

NT@UW-99-42 Improving the Convergence of NN Effective Field Theory a a a,b Daniel R. Phillips , Gautam Rupak and Martin J. Savage a Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. b Jefferson Lab., 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, 9 Virginia 23606. 9 9 1 g Abstract u A 7 We study a low-energy effective field theory (EFT) describing the NN system 1 in which all exchanged particles are integrated out. We show that fitting 1 the residue of the 3S1 amplitude at the deuteron pole, rather than the 3S1 v effective range, dramatically improves the convergence of deuteron observables 4 5 in this theory. Reproducing the residue ensures that the tail of the deuteron 0 wave function, which is directly related to NN scattering data via analytic 8 0 continuation, is correctly reproduced in the EFT at next-to-leading order. The 9 role of multi-nucleon-electroweak operators which produce deviations from 9 effective-range theory can then be explicitly separated from the physics of the / h wave function tail. Such an operator contributes to the deuteron quadrupole t l- moment, µQ , at low order, indicating a sensitivity to short-distance physics. c This is consistent with the failure of impulse-approximation calculations in u n NN potential models to