Rearranging Pionless Effective Field Theory

We point out a redundancy in the operator structure of the pionless effective field theory, EFT(π/), which dramatically simplifies computations. This redundancy is best exploited by using dibaryon fields as fundamental degrees of freedom. In turn, this suggests a new power counting scheme which sums range corrections to all orders. We explore this method with a few simple observables: the deuteron charge form factor, np → dγ, and Compton scattering from the deuteron. Unlike EFT(π/), the higher dimension operators involving electroweak gauge fields are not renormalized by the s-wave strong interactions, and therefore do not scale with inverse powers of the renormalization scale. Thus, naive dimensional analysis of these operators is sufficient to estimate their contribution to a given process.