From QCD Symmetries to Nuclei and Neutron Stars
Nuclear Theory
2019-04-17 v1
Abstract
Global symmetries and symmetry breaking patterns of QCD with light quarks, in particular chiral symmetry, provide basic guidance not only for low-energy hadron physics but also for nuclear forces and the nuclear many-body problem. Recent developments of Chiral Effective Field Theory applications to nuclear and neutron matter are summarized, with special emphasis on a (non-perturbative) extension using functional renormalisation group methods. Topics include: nuclear thermodynamics, extrapolations to dense baryonic matter and constraints from neutron star observables.
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@article{arxiv.1811.09682,
title = {From QCD Symmetries to Nuclei and Neutron Stars},
author = {Wolfram Weise},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09682},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
24 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.07568