Peripheral nucleon-nucleon scattering with explicit vector mesons in chiral perturbation theory
Background: In chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), heavy degrees of freedom are integrated out, with their contributions absorbed into low-energy constants. Keeping the $\rho$ and $\omega$ explicit within ChPT retains the finite-range momentum dependence associated with these mesons. Purpose: We study how explicit $\rho...