The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales. Applied to low energy hadronic phenomena it provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions. Because EFT 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.
Much progress has been made recently in this field: a number of observables in the two-nucleon sector were computed and compared to experiment, issues related to the extension of the EFT program to the three-nucleon sector were clarified, and the convergence of the low energy expansion was critically examined. This book contains the proceedings of the Workshop on "Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory II", where these and other developments were discussed.
Contents:
- Overview (U van Kolck)
- Effective Field Theory Expansion for Nonrelativistic Scattering (D B Kaplan)
- Perturbative Pions and the Effective Range Expansion (T D Cohen)
- Convergence Issues in Nucleon–Nucleon Effective Field Theory (J V Steele)
- Nucleon–Nucleon Scattering in Effective Field Theory (G Rupak)
- Nucleon–Nucleon Effective Field Theory at NNLO: Radiation Pions and 1S0 Phase Shift (T Mehen)
- Power Counting for and Symmetries of the Effective Field Theory for Nucleon–Nucleon Interactions (M B Wise)
- The Two-Nucleon Sector with Effective Field Theory (M J Savage)
- Gamma–Deuteron Scattering (S R Beane)
- Near-Threshold Pion (Photo) Production: A Success and an Opportunity (U van Kolck)
- On Making Predictions with Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Physics (M Rho)
- Isispin Violation in the Two-Nucleon System (U-G Meiβner)
- A Surprising Renormalization on the Way to N-Body Power Counting (P F Bedaque)
- Effective Theory for Neutron–Deuteron Scattering and the Triton (H-W Hammer)
- Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Matter (M Lutz)
- The Canonical Nuclear Many-Body Problem as a Rigorous Effective Theory (W C Haxton)
Readership: Researchers and graduate students interested in the theory of strong interactions in nuclear and particle physics.
