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Do we know how to count powers in pionless and pionful effective field theory?

Nuclear Theory 2020-04-22 v3

Abstract

In this article I summarize recent progress in the effective field theory approach to low energy nuclear systems, with a focus on the power counting issue. In the pionless sector, where the power counting is quite well understood at the nucleon-nucleon (NN) level, I discuss some recent developments toward few- and many-body calculations. In the pionful sector, I focus on the actively debated issue of power counting in the NN sector and some recent developments toward a model-independent NN interaction. Finally, the scenario that the power counting might depend on the number of particles is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1905.12510,
  title  = {Do we know how to count powers in pionless and pionful effective field theory?},
  author = {C. -J. Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.12510},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure. Contributions to the EPJA topical issue: The tower of effective (field) theories and the emergence of nuclear phenomena. Published version