Nuclear Physics with Chiral Effective Field Theory: State of the Art and Open Challenges
arXiv:1302.3241
Abstract
Understanding the properties of atomic nuclei and nuclear dynamics from QCD remains a major challenge. Complementary to first attempts along these lines based on lattice QCD, an effective field theory approach has been developed in the past two decades and applied to a variety of nuclear bound states and reactions. I outline the foundations of this method, review selected applications and address some open challenges in this field.
arXiv comment15 pages, 7 figures
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