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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 341-354Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2009-10833-3
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- Helmholtz Association [VH-NG-222, VH-VI-231]
- DFG [SFB/TR 16, SFB 443]
- EU
- Georgian National Foundation [GNSF/ST08/4-400]
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We discuss conceptual aspects of renormalization in the context of effective field theories for the two-nucleon system. It is shown that, contrary to widespread belief, the renormalization scheme dependence of the scattering amplitude can only be eliminated up to the order the calculations are performed. We further consider an effective theory for an exactly solvable quantum mechanical model which possesses a long- and short-range interaction to simulate pionful effective field theory. We discuss the meaning of low-energy theorems in this model and demonstrate their validity in calculations with a finite cutoff Lambda as long as it is chosen of the order of the hard scale in the problem. Removing the cutoff by taking the limit Lambda -> infinity yields a finite result for the scattering amplitude but violates the low-energy theorems and is, therefore, not compatible with the effective field theory framework.
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