The three-boson system at next-to-leading order in an effective field theory for systems with a large scattering length Original Research Article

We analyze how corrections linear in the effective range, image, affect quantities in the three-body sector within an effective field theory for short-range interactions. We demonstrate that observables can be obtained straightforwardly using a perturbative expansion in powers of image. In particular, we show that two linear-in-image counterterms are needed for renormalization at this order if scattering-length-dependent observables are considered. We exemplify the implications of this result using various three-body observables. Analytical results for the running of the next-to-leading-order portion of the three-body force in this effective field theory are provided. Expressions which incorporate image corrections and relate the positions of features observed in three-atom recombination near a Feshbach resonance are presented.