Quantum Hadrodynamics: Evolution and Revolution
Nuclear Theory
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The underlying philosophy and motivation for quantum hadrodynamics (QHD), namely, relativistic field theories of nuclear phenomena featuring manifest covariance, have evolved over the last quarter century in response to successes, failures, and sharp criticisms. A recent revolution in QHD, based on modern effective field theory and density functional theory perspectives, explains the successes, provides antidotes to the failures, rebuts the criticisms, and focuses the arguments in favor of a covariant representation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0005072,
title = {Quantum Hadrodynamics: Evolution and Revolution},
author = {R. J. Furnstahl and Brian D. Serot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0005072},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages, RevTeX; references added and minor editorial changes; submitted to Comments on Modern Physics