Renormalizability and nonrenormalizability of nonlocal potentials
Phys. Rev. C 112, 064006 – Published 17 December, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/79nk-9dkq
Abstract
We consider separable toy models of the nucleon-nucleon interaction inspired by chiral effective field theory. We show that nonlocality of the long-range forces causes the need for nonlocal counter terms, or even makes the whole approach nonrenormalizable.