Universal physics of the few-body system of two neutrons and one flavored meson

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We investigate the $s$-wave three-body system of two neutrons and one flavored meson with total spin-isospin $J=0,I=3/2$.

• The meson-neutron scattering length can become infinitely large in an unphysical region of the quark mass when extrapolated from strangeness to charm in the so-called zero coupling limit.
• Using a low-energy cluster effective field theory, we demonstrate that the Efimov effect is manifest in the three-body system when the meson-neutron scattering length is extrapolated to the unitary limit of the two-body interaction.
• We thereby discuss the consequence of universal physics in the physical $K^{-}nn$ and $D^{0}nn$ systems.