Chiral symmetry is consistently implemented in the two-nucleon problem at low-energy through the general effective chiral Lagrangian. The potential is obtained up to a certain order in chiral perturbation theory both in momentum and coordinate space. Results of a fit to scattering phase shifts and bound state data are presented, where satisfactory agreement is found for laboratory energies up to about 100 MeV. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

• Received 30 October 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.2086

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