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Effective Field Theory of 3He

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We examine the effects of the long range Coulomb force on the three-body contact interaction in a pionless effective theory of 3He. The corresponding interaction in 3H exhibits limit-cycle behavior and we show that this is not altered by the 1/r singularity of the potential.

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  1. Department of Physics Education, Daegu University, Gyeongsan, 712-714, Republic of Korea

    S.-I. Ando

  2. Theoretical Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    M. C. Birse

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Ando, SI., Birse, M.C. Effective Field Theory of 3He. Few-Body Syst 54, 235–238 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-012-0350-1

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