TY - JOUR
T1 - Effective field theory of nuclear forces
AU - Van Kolck, U.
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The ideas reviewed here evolved from conversations with a large number of friends, collaborators, and colleagues. I thank them all, but particularly Silas Beane, Paulo Bedaque, and Jim Friar for their continuous input along the years. Helpful discussions on specific issues reported here are also acknowledged: Paulo Bedaque on ~ counting and the dimeron, Paulo Bedaque and Rob Timmermans on electromagnetic interactions, and Tom Cohen on perturbative pions. I am grateful to Silas Beane for helpful comments on the manuscript, to Ulf Meigner, Dan Phillips, and Martin Savage for allowing me to use their figures, and to Jim Friar, Barry Holstein, Tom Mehen, Gautam Rupak, Iain Stewart, and Rob Timmermans for making their unpublished papers available to me. This research was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation, grant PHY 94-20470.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The application of the effective field theory (EFT) method to nuclear systems is reviewed. The roles of degrees of freedom, QCD symmetries, power counting, renormalization, and potentials are discussed. EFTs are constructed for the various energy regimes of relevance in nuclear physics, and are used in systematic expansions to derive nuclear forces in terms of a number of parameters that embody information about QCD dynamics. Two-, three-, and many-nucleon systems, including external probes, are considered.
AB - The application of the effective field theory (EFT) method to nuclear systems is reviewed. The roles of degrees of freedom, QCD symmetries, power counting, renormalization, and potentials are discussed. EFTs are constructed for the various energy regimes of relevance in nuclear physics, and are used in systematic expansions to derive nuclear forces in terms of a number of parameters that embody information about QCD dynamics. Two-, three-, and many-nucleon systems, including external probes, are considered.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0146-6410(99)00097-6
DO - 10.1016/S0146-6410(99)00097-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033319016
SN - 0146-6410
VL - 43
SP - 337
EP - 418
JO - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
JF - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
IS - 1
ER -