Chiral effective field theory and nuclear forces

R Machleidt, DR Entem - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
We review how nuclear forces emerge from low-energy QCD via chiral effective field theory.
The presentation is accessible to the non-specialist. At the same time, we also provide …

Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

HW Hammer, S König, U Van Kolck - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The nuclear-physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field
theories (EFTs) connected to the standard model through symmetries and lattice simulations …

Modern theory of nuclear forces

E Epelbaum, HW Hammer, UG Meißner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
Effective field theory allows for a systematic and model-independent derivation of the forces
between nucleons in harmony with the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics. The …

Renormalized approach to neutrinoless double- decay

V Cirigliano, W Dekens, J de Vries, ML Graesser… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
The process at the heart of neutrinoless double-β decay, nn→ ppe− e− induced by a light
Majorana neutrino, is investigated in pionless and chiral effective field theory. We show in …

The problem of renormalization of chiral nuclear forces

U Van Kolck - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ever since quantum field theory was first applied to the derivation of nuclear forces in the
mid-twentieth century, the renormalization of pion exchange with realistic couplings has …

Towards grounding nuclear physics in QCD

C Drischler, W Haxton, K McElvain, E Mereghetti… - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exascale computing could soon enable a predictive theory of nuclear structure and
reactions rooted in the Standard Model, with quantifiable and systematically improvable …

Spin-parities of the and in the one-boson-exchange model

MZ Liu, TW Wu, MS Sánchez, MP Valderrama… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The LHCb collaboration has recently observed three pentaquark peaks, the P c (4312), P c
(4440) and P c (4457). They are very close to a pair of heavy baryon-meson thresholds, with …

Using effective field theory to analyse low-energy Compton scattering data from protons and light nuclei

HW Grießhammer, JA McGovern, DR Phillips… - Progress in Particle and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Compton scattering from protons and neutrons provides important insight into the structure
of the nucleon. For photon energies up to about 300 MeV, the process can be parameterised …

New ideas in constraining nuclear forces

I Tews, Z Davoudi, A Ekström, JD Holt… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, nuclear physics has benefited greatly from the development of powerful ab
initio many-body methods and their combination with interactions from chiral effective field …

Power counting and perturbative one pion exchange in heavy meson molecules

M Pavón Valderrama - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2012 - APS
We discuss the possible power counting schemes that can be applied in the effective field
theory description of heavy meson molecules, such as the X (3872) or the recently …