NUCLEAR PHYSICS WITH EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY - PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT CALTECH/INT WORKSHOP: 6 (PROCEEDINGS FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR THEORY) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810235968 ISBN 13: 9789810235963

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Effective field theory (EFT), a technique used extensively in particle physics, provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions. Because it 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.Since the early 1990's when Weinberg applied the techniques of EFT to multiple-nucleon systems, significant developments have been made. However, serious obstacles have also been encountered. This book contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory, held in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech on the 26th and 27th of February 1998, which specifically addressed those issues. Physicists from different areas of sub-atomic physics gathered in an attempt to arrive at a consistent power counting scheme for the nucleon–nucleon interaction, a first step toward dealing with few–nucleon systems and ultimately nuclear matter and finite nuclei.

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Synopsis

Effective field theory (EFT), a technique used extensively in particle physics, provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions. Because it 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. This text contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory, held in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech in February 1998. It specifically addresses the issues relating to nuclear physics with effective field theory, and physicists from different areas of sub-atomic physics attempt to arrive at a consistent power counting scheme for the nucleon-nucleon interaction, a first step towards dealing with few-nucleon systems and ultimately nuclear matter and finite nuclei.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9810235968
• ISBN 13: 9789810235963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Seki Ryoichi, Van Kolck Ubirajara, Savage Martin J