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Renormalization of pionless effective field theory in the A-body sector

Nuclear Theory 2020-05-19 v1

Abstract

Current models of inter-nucleon interactions are built within the frame of Effective Field Theories (EFTs). Contrary to traditional nuclear potentials, EFT interactions require a renormalization of their parameters in order to derive meaningful estimations of observable. In this paper, a renormalization procedure is designed in connection with many-body approximations applicable to large-A systems and formulated within the frame of many-body perturbation theory. The procedure is shown to generate counterterms that are independent of the targeted A-body sector. As an example, the procedure is applied to the random phase approximation. This work constitutes one step towards the design of a practical EFT for many-body systems.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07578,
  title  = {Renormalization of pionless effective field theory in the A-body sector},
  author = {Mehdi Drissi and Thomas Duguet and Vittorio Soma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07578},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

14 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Contribution to the EPJA topical issue: "The tower of effective (field) theories and the emergence of nuclear phenomena"