What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Abstract

A lot. [In this hard, unbiased and objective look at some past and continuing blunders in following Weinberg's suggestions to arrive at a comprehensive description of Nuclear Physics using Effective Field Theories, some names and citations are withheld to protect the innocent.]

20 pages LaTeX2e (pdflatex) including 4 figures as .pdf files using includegraphics and svjour3. Text-identical to publication in Few-Body Systems, Special Issue "Celebrating 30 years of the Steven Weinberg's paper Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians", but correcting journal's erroneous placing of motto

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• Short-range nuclear forces in singlet channels
• Power Counting of Contact-Range Currents in Effective Field Theory
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• Local two- and three-nucleon chiral interactions
• Physics and the Totalitarian Principle
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Cited by in corpus (8)

• Stop comparing resummation methods
• Perturbative computations of neutron-proton scattering observables using renormalization-group invariant $\chi$EFT up to N${}^3$LO
• A further study on the renormalization group aspect of perturbative corrections
• Nucleon-nucleon scattering up to next-to-next-to-leading order in manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral effective field theory: peripheral phases
• Reexamining the perturbative renormalizability of the coupled triplets
• Regulator constraints for the perturbative renormalizability of attractive triplets
• Calculations for nuclear matter and finite nuclei within and beyond energy--density--functional theories through interactions guided by effective field theory
• Feasibility of perturbative generation of bound-states from resonances or virtual states