Renormalization of equations governing nucleon dynamics and nonlocality in time of the NN interaction

Abstract

We discuss the problem of renormalization of dynamical equations which arises in an effective field theory description of nuclear forces. By using a toy model of the separable NN potential leading to logarithmic singularities in the Born series, we show that renormalization gives rise to nucleon dynamics which is governed by a generalized dynamical equation with a nonlocal-in-time interaction operator. We show that this dynamical equation can open new possibilities for applying the EFT approach to the description of low-energy nucleon dynamics.

Comments: 10 pages, REVTeX, 4 figures