Running of the contact interactions in chiral N3LO potentials from subtractive renormalization

Abstract

In this work a subtracted kernel renormalization procedure (SKM) is applied to the chiral NN potential up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (N3 LO) to obtain the running of the renormalized contact strengths with the subtraction scale μ and the phase shifts for all uncoupled waves with contact interaction (S,P,D). We use two potentials constructed within the framework of Weinberg's approach to ChEFT, which provide a very accurate description of NN scattering data below laboratory energies E ∼ 350 MeV, namely Epelbaum, Glöckle and Meissner (N3LO-EGM) and Entem and Machleidt (N3LO-EM). For both potentials, we consider a large cutoff (30 fm-1) and analyze the phases and the running of the contact strengths with the subtraction point μ by making a fit of the K-matrix with five subtractions to the K-matrix from the Nijmegen II potential at low energies (E ≤ 20 MeV).