Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics

Abstract

I review the current status of the application of effective field theory to nuclear physics, and its present implications for nuclear astrophysics.

10 pages, 9 figures, latex. Talk at PaNic02, September 30-October 4, 2002, Osaka, Japan

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• Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant
• Possible evidence for a variable fine structure constant from QSO absorption lines: motivations, analysis and results
• Towards a Perturbative Theory of Nuclear Forces

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• Toy model of the Nucleon - Nucleon potential