Large-N π+π+ scattering from twisted Eguchi--Kawai reduction
Abstract
We present the first computation of the π+π+ scattering length in large-N QCD in the 't Hooft limit, Nscriptscriptstylef/N→ 0, using the twisted Eguchi--Kawai formulation of the lattice theory. We employ values of N up to 1156 and consider several quark masses and lattice spacings to achieve controlled large-N, continuum, and chiral limits. The chiral behavior of the scattering length is compared with next-to-leading-order Chiral Perturbation Theory predictions. Our result for the low-energy coupling describing the sub-leading quark-mass dependence is consistent with existing S-matrix bootstrap bounds. Combining TEK results with previous lattice QCD data obtained using standard methods for 3≤ N≤ 6, we are also able to extract sub-leading 𝒪(1/N) corrections to the large-N scattering length.
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BibTeX
@misc{bonanno2026largen,
title = {{Large-$N$ $π^+π^+$ scattering from twisted Eguchi--Kawai reduction}},
author = {Claudio Bonanno and Margarita García Pérez and Antonio González-Arroyo and Ken-Ichi Ishikawa and Masanori Okawa and Fernando Romero-López},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.35176},
eprint = {2610.35176},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35176},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Large-N π^+π^+ scattering from twisted Eguchi--Kawai reduction
AU - Claudio Bonanno
AU - Margarita García Pérez
AU - Antonio González-Arroyo
AU - Ken-Ichi Ishikawa
AU - Masanori Okawa
AU - Fernando Romero-López
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.35176
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35176
AB - We present the first computation of the π^+π^+ scattering length in large-N QCD in the 't Hooft limit, N_scriptscriptstylef/N→ 0, using the twisted Eguchi--Kawai formulation of the lattice theory. We employ values of N up to 1156 and consider several quark masses and lattice spacings to achieve controlled large-N, continuum, and chiral limits. The chiral behavior of the scattering length is compared with next-to-leading-order Chiral Perturbation Theory predictions. Our result for the low-energy coupling describing the sub-leading quark-mass dependence is consistent with existing S-matrix bootstrap bounds. Combining TEK results with previous lattice QCD data obtained using standard methods for 3≤ N≤ 6, we are also able to extract sub-leading 𝒪(1/N) corrections to the large-N scattering length.
ER -