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Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 59, 2009

Review Article

Hadronic Atoms

J. Gasser¹, V.E. Lyubovitskij², and A. Rusetsky³
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Affiliations: ¹Center for Research and Education in Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland; email: [email protected] ²Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Tübingen D-72076, Germany; email: [email protected] ³Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen und Kernphysik, Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, Bonn D-53115, Germany; email: [email protected]
Vol. 59:169-190 (Volume publication date November 2009) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.010909.083806
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Abstract

We review the theory of hadronic atoms in the framework of quantum chromodynamics, with photons and electrons included (QCD+QED). We illustrate the method by means of π⁺π⁻ atoms and briefly consider the application of the same approach to several other hadronic atoms.

Keyword(s): chiral perturbation theory, DGBT formula, nonrelativistic effective Lagrangians, QCD, QED, scattering lengths

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