Thursday, November 1, 2012

1210.8304 (Sebastian König et al.)

Causality constraints for charged particles    [PDF]

Sebastian König, Dean Lee, H. -W. Hammer
In quantum systems with short-range interactions, causality imposes nontrivial constraints on low-energy scattering parameters. We investigate these causality onstraints for systems where a long-range Coulomb potential is present in addition to a short-range interaction. The main result is an upper bound for the Coulomb-modified effective range parameter. We discuss the implications of this bound to the effective field theory for nuclear halo systems. In particular, we consider several examples of proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus scattering. For the bound-state regime, we find relations for the asymptotic normalization coefficients (ANCs) of nuclear halo states. As an application of these relations, we extract the ANCs of the excited 2+ and 1- states in 16O from alpha-12C scattering data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8304

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