The role of intermediate $\Delta \Delta$ states in nucleon-nucleon scattering in the large-$N_c$ and unitary limits, and $\Delta \Delta$ and $\Omega \Omega$ scattering

Thomas R. Richardson, Matthias R. Schindler, Roxanne P. Springer

We explore potential explanations for why using large-$N_c$ ($N_c$ is the number of colors) scaling to determine the relative size of few-nucleon low-energy operators agrees with e…