Nuclear Physics With Effective Field Theory II

by Bedaque, Paulo; Savage, Martin J.; Seki, Ryoichi; Van Kolck, Ubirajara

• ISBN13: 9789810241810
• ISBN10: 981024181X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales. Applied to low energy hadronic phenomena it provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions. Because EFT offers the possibility of a unified description of all low energy processes involving nucleons, it has the potential to become the foundation of conventional nuclear physics.Much progress has been made recently in this field: a number of observables in the two-nucleon sector were computed and compared to experiment, issues related to the extension of the EFT program to the three-nucleon sector were clarified, and the convergence of the low energy expansion was critically examined. This book contains the proceedings of the Workshop on "Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory II", where these and other developments were discussed.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Preface	ix
Overview	1	(18)
U. van Kolck
Session 1:
M. Luke
D. R. Phillips
Effective Field Theory Expansion for Nonrelativistic Scattering	19	(23)
D. B. Kaplan
Perturbative Pions and the Effective Range Expansion	42	(15)
T. D. Cohen
Convergence Issues in Nucleon-Nucleon Effective Field Theory	57	(20)
J. V. Steele
Session 2:
B. Holstein
S. Fleming
Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering in Effective Field Theory	77	(23)
G. Rupak
Nucleon-Nucleon Effective Field Theory at NNLO: Radiation Pions and 1S0 Phase Shift	100	(24)
T. Mehen
Power Counting for and Symmetries of the Effective Field Theory for Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions	124	(12)
M. B. Wise
The Two-Nucleon Sector with Effective Field Theory	136	(29)
M. J. Savage
Session 3:
R. J. Furnstahl
R. P. Springer
Open Discussion	165	(12)
Session 4:
F. Ravndal
J. McGovern
Gamma-Deuteron Scattering	177	(21)
S. R. Beane
Near-Threshold Pion (Photo) Production: A Success and an Opportunity	198	(27)
U. van Kolck
On Making Predictions with Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Physics	225	(20)
M. Rho
Isospin Violation in the Two-Nucleon System	245	(20)
U.-G. Meißner
Session 5:
M. Birse
M. N. Butler
A Surprising Renormalization on the Way to N-Body Power Counting	265	(16)
P. F. Bedaque
Effective Theory for Neutron-Deuteron Scattering and the Triton	281	(17)
H.-W. Hammer
Effective Field Theory For Nuclear Matter	298	(19)
M. Lutz
The Canonical Nuclear Many-Body Problem as a Rigorous Effective Theory	317	(28)
W. C. Haxton
Session 6:
R. Seki
H. Grießhammer
Open Discussion	345	(8)
Conference Summary	353	(14)
G. P. Lepage
Participants	367