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Large-Nc constraints on parity-violating low-energy constants in pionless effective field theory

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Abstract

References [1,2] have shown that a combination of pionless effective field theory (EFT) and the large-$N_c$ expansion, which assumes the number of colors $N_c$ to be in large, is a powerful tool for analyzing few-body hadronic parity violation (PV) at low energies. In this talk, we focus on the three-derivative operators in pionless EFT that contribute to six P-D transitions and corrections to five S-P transitions in nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering. We show that the large-$N_c$ expansion can systematically separate low-energy constants (LECs) into those that occur at leading order in $N_c$ and those that occur at next-to-leading order in $N_c$. We determine that the isoscalar and isotensor terms are dominant in the large-$N_c$ expansion. We also find that only six LECs are independent in this dual pionless EFT and large-$N_c$ expansion, yielding several relationships among the LECs. These constraints are expected to be valid at the 10\% level.\\\\ $[1]$ D. R. Phillips, D. Samart, and C. Schat, Phys. Rev. Lett. 144, 062301 (2015).\\ $[2]$ M. R. Schindler, R. P. Springer, and J. Vanasse, Phys. Rev. C 93, 025502 (2016).

Authors

  • Son Nguyen

    Duke University

  • Matthias Schindler

    University of South Carolina

  • Roxanne Springer

    Duke University

  • Jared Vanasse

    Fitchburg State University