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We study theoretically the effects of finite volume for ππ scattering in order to extract physical observables for infinite volume from lattice QCD. We compare three different approaches for ππ scattering (lowest order Bethe-Salpeter approach, N/D and inverse amplitude methods) with the aim of studying the effects of the finite size of the box in the potential of the different theories, specially the left-hand cut contribution through loops in the crossed t, u−channels. We quantify the error made by neglecting these effects in usual extractions of physical observables from lattice QCD spectrum. We conclude that for ππ phase-shifts in the scalar-isoscalar channel up to 800 MeV this effect is negligible for box sizes bigger than \( 2.5m_{\pi }^{{ - 1}} \) and of the order of 5% at around \( 1.5 - 2m_{\pi }^{{ - 1}} \). For isospin 2 the finite size effects can reach up to 10% for that energy. We also quantify the error made when using the standard Lüscher method to extract physical observables from lattice QCD, which is widely used in the literature but is an approximation of the one used in thepresent work.
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Albaladejo, M., Oller, J.A., Oset, E. et al. Finite volume treatment of ππ scattering and limits to phase shifts extraction from lattice QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 71 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2012)071
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