Three-Body System with Short-Range Interactions

Abstract

Within the framework of non-relativistic scalar effective field theory it is shown that the problem of the cutoff dependence of the leading order amplitude for a particle scattering off a two-body bound state can be solved without introducing three-body forces.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure; contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics (Adelaide, February 2000)