We employ the chiral nucleon-nucleon potential derived in ref.[1] to study bound and scattering states in the two-nucleon system. At next-to-leading order, this potential is the sum of renormalized one-pion and two-pion exchange and contact interactions. At next-to-next-to-leading order, we have additional chiral two-pion exchange with low-energy constants determined from pion-nucleon scattering. Alternatively, we consider the ∆(1232) as an explicit degree of freedom in the effective field theory. The nine parameters related to the contact interactions can be determined by a fit to the np S-and P-waves and the mixing parameter ǫ 1 for laboratory energies below 100 MeV. The predicted phase shifts and mixing parameters for higher energies and higher angular momenta are mostly well described for energies below 300 MeV. The S-waves are described as precisely as in modern phenomenological potentials. We find a good description of the deuteron properties.
#1 #5We already remark here that the determination of these parameters from fitting the invariant amplitudes inside the Mandelstam triangle is favored by our fits.#6 Strictly speaking, one should keep also the dimension two πN operators and subtract the ∆ contribution. Since an explicit ∆ is, however, dynamically different from integrating it out, we refrain from doing this. The uncertainty due to this procedure is small in most partial waves. #7 The leading effects of the ∆(1232) resonance were also incorporated in that work. #8 Note that the NNLO potential was not given in I.