2003/12/01 by S. R. Beane, Silas R. Beane, Paulo F. Bedaque +4 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lattice (music) #Lattice QCD #Lattice field theory #Lattice model (finance) #Nuclear magnetic resonance #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #hep-lat #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.02.007
published as Phys.Lett.B585:106-114,2004 · 13 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2003/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2004/02/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The two-nucleon sector is near an infrared fixed point of QCD and as a result the S-wave scattering lengths are unnaturally large compared to the effective ranges and shape parameters. It is usually assumed that a lattice QCD simulation of the two-nucleon sector will require a lattice that is much larger than the scattering lengths in order to extract quantitative information. In this Letter we point out that this does not have to be the case: lattice QCD simulations on much smaller lattices will produce rigorous results for nuclear physics.