Resonance scattering phase shifts on a non-rest-frame lattice

• Published in: Nuclear physics. B Vol. 450; no. 1; pp. 397 - 436
• Main Authors: Rummukainen, K., Gottlieb, Steven
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 11.09.1995
• ISSN: 0550-3213; 1873-1562
• DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00313-H

Many low energy hadrons, such as the rho, can be observed as resonances in scattering experiments. A proposal by Lüscher enables one to determine infinite volume elastic scattering phases from the two-particle energy spectrum measured from finite periodic lattices. In this work, we generalize the formalism to the case where the total momentum of the particles is non-zero; i.e. the lattice frame is not the center-of-mass frame of the scattering particles. There are several advantages to this procedure including making a wider variety of center of mass energies accessible with a fixed lattice volume, and making the avoided level crossing in a P-wave decay occur with a smaller volume. The formalism is tested with a simple lattice model of two fields with different masses and a 3-point coupling in 3 + 1 dimensions. We find remarkable agreement between the rest-frame and non-rest-frame scattering.