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Chiral -exchange NN-potentials: Two-loop contributions

arXiv:nucl-th/0107064 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.64.057001

Abstract

We calculate in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory the local NN-potentials generated by the two-pion exchange diagrams at two-loop order. We give explicit expressions for the mass-spectra (or imaginary parts) of the corresponding isoscalar and isovector central, spin-spin and tensor NN-amplitudes. We find from two-loop two-pion exchange a sizeable isoscalar central repulsion which amounts to MeV at fm. There is a similarly strong isovector central attraction which however originates mainly from the third order low energy constants entering the chiral -scattering amplitude. We also evaluate the one-loop -exchange diagram with two second order chiral -vertices proportional to the low energy constants as well as the first relativistic 1/M-correction to the -exchange diagrams with one such vertex. The diagrammatic results presented here are relevant components of the chiral NN-potential at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order.

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