Five-body calculation of s-wave n-4He scattering at next-to-leading order pionless effective field theory

Mirko Bagnarol, Martin Schäfer*, Betzalel Bazak, Nir Barnea

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Abstract

We present the first five-body calculations of s-wave n-4He scattering within leading order and next-to-leading order (NLO) pionless effective field theory (π̸EFT). Using an harmonic oscillator trap technique and π̸EFT fitted to just six well-established experimental parameters, we predict the s-wave n-4He phase shifts, scattering length an4He 1/2(NLO)=2.47(4num.)(17theor.)fm, and effective range rn4He 1/2(NLO)=1.384(3num.)(211theor.)fm in agreement with experiment. The apparent cutoff independence of our results is used to estimate the theoretical errors coming as an integral part of our final results.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number138078
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume844
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Sep 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The work of M. Bagnarol, N. Barnea, and M. Schäfer was supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant 1086/21 and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 824093 . The work of M.S. was also supported by the Czech Science Foundation GAČR grant 22-14497S . This research was supported in part by the Pazy foundation Grant No. 5067333 .

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