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Delta Effects in Pion-Nucleon Scattering and the Strength of the Two-Pion-Exchange Three-Nucleon Interaction 1 2 3 V.R. Pandharipande , D.R. Phillips , and U. van Kolck 1 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 5 Urbana, IL 61801 0 0 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, 2 n Athens, OH 45701 a 3 J Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 5 Tucson, AZ 85721 2 1 v 1 Abstract 6 0 We consider the relationship between P -wave πN scattering and the strength of the 1 P -wave two-pion-exchange three-nucleon interaction (TPE3NI). We explain why 0 5 effective theories that do not contain the delta resonance as an explicit degree of 0 freedom tend to overestimate the strength of the TPE3NI. The overestimation can / h be remedied by higher-order terms in these “delta-less” theories, but such terms t - are not yet included in state-of-the-art chiral EFT calculations of the nuclear force. l c This suggests that these calculations can only predict the strength of the TPE3NI u to an accuracy of ±25%. n : v i X PACS nos.: 21.30.Cb, 13.75.Cs, 12.39.Fe, 11.30.Rd r a 1 Introduction A longstanding quest in hadronic physics is to relate the properties of free pions, observed in, for instance, pionnucleon (πN ) scattering, to those of the pions which play such a significant role in the nuclear force. Recently, the Nijmegen group has provided a striking demonstration