Nuclear Physics with Effective Field Theory

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Introduction

• Preface

• Overview

• Session 1:

  • Views of a Devil's Advocate — Fundamental Challenges to Effective Field Theory Treatments of Nuclear Physics

  • Power Counting and the Renormalization Group for an Effective Description of NN Scattering

  • Power Counting in Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theories

• Session 2:

  • Renormalizing NN Scattering: Is Power Counting Powerless?

  • The Aleph

  • Regularization and the Potential of Effective Field Theory in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering

  • Comparison of Regularization Methods for Nucleon-Nucleon Effective Field Theory

• Session 3: Open Discussion

• Session 4:

  • Nuclear Scales

  • Three Nucleons at Very Low Energy

  • Finite Cut-Off Effective Field Theory for Two-Nucleon Systems

  • Lattice Regularization and Nuclear Matter Calculation

• Session 5:

  • Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians Using the Method of Unitary Transformation

  • The Soft Régime in NRQCD

  • Including Pions

• Session 6: Conference Summary