The understanding of nuclear systems as composed of interacting nucleons has been considerably sharpened by the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The latter provides a link between the nuclear interaction and the underlying quantum chromodynamics, as the relevant degrees of freedom result, at least ideally, from a decimation process starting from fundamental quarks and gluons. Owing to chiral symmetry and the Goldstone bosons’ characters of the interchanged pions among nucleons, the properties of heavier nuclei can in principle be traced back to a restricted set of low-energy constants (LECs) to be determined in lighter systems in the framework of a systematic low-energy expansion. At smaller energy scales, in pionless EFT, the interactions simplify becoming of contact type. The low-energy expansion is organized differently, relying on the emergence of universal properties, characteristic of systems with large two-body scattering lengths. We will examine the two above schemes and discuss their relation, with the aim of devising viable power counting schemes for applications in nuclear physics.

Effective Field Theory Descriptions of Few-Nucleon Systems

Girlanda L.
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2020-01-01

Abstract

The understanding of nuclear systems as composed of interacting nucleons has been considerably sharpened by the effective field theory (EFT) framework. The latter provides a link between the nuclear interaction and the underlying quantum chromodynamics, as the relevant degrees of freedom result, at least ideally, from a decimation process starting from fundamental quarks and gluons. Owing to chiral symmetry and the Goldstone bosons’ characters of the interchanged pions among nucleons, the properties of heavier nuclei can in principle be traced back to a restricted set of low-energy constants (LECs) to be determined in lighter systems in the framework of a systematic low-energy expansion. At smaller energy scales, in pionless EFT, the interactions simplify becoming of contact type. The low-energy expansion is organized differently, relying on the emergence of universal properties, characteristic of systems with large two-body scattering lengths. We will examine the two above schemes and discuss their relation, with the aim of devising viable power counting schemes for applications in nuclear physics.
2020
978-3-030-32356-1
978-3-030-32357-8
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