Pion-only, chiral light-front model of the deuteron

Abstract

We investigate the symptoms of broken rotational invariance, caused by the use of light front dynamics, for deuterons obtained using one- and two-pion-exchange potentials. A large mass splitting between states with m=0 and m=1 is found for the deuteron obtained from the one-pion-exchange (OPE) potential. The size of the splitting is smaller when the chiral two-pion-exchange (TPE) potential is used. When the TPE potential constructed without chiral symmetry is used, the deuteron becomes unbound. These results arise from significant relativistic effects which are much larger than those of the Wick-Cutkosky model because of the presence of the tensor force.

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