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Main Authors: Beckers, Corinne, Tempere, Jacques, Maki, Jeff, Ahmed-Braun, Denise
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24226
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  • Effective field theories (EFTs) are widely used to study many-body systems by describing two-body interactions using zero-ranged contact potentials. However, when extended to three-body processes, these contact interactions lead to divergences due to the absence of an intrinsic length scale. In EFT, this is typically resolved by introducing a zero-ranged three-body interaction, which can be renormalized to make the low-energy physics independent of the short-distance physics. However, when the two-body potential has a finite range, such as in separable potentials, there is no need for such renormalization. In this work, we derive the integral equation for the three-body scattering amplitude for separable potentials, and solve it in the strongly-interacting regime. With our model, we retrieve the known analytic form of the scattering amplitude for inelastic scattering processes and formulate a new scaling law for elastic three-body scattering processes.