Published March 2022 | Version v1
Journal article

What Hath Weinberg Wrought? Reflections on What Weinberg's Papers on 'Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians' did and did not Accomplish

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701 (United States)

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I discuss selected legacies of Weinberg's application of chiral Lagrangians to nuclear physics: (1) the use of the chiral expansion to organize the interaction of pions and photons with a nucleus; (2) the much-debated question of why and how the potential derived from a chiral Lagrangian should be inserted in the Schrödinger equation; (3) the emergence of "pion less EFT" as a tool for diagnosing universal correlations that are present in quantum few-body systems of very different sizes, and, perhaps most important of all, (4) an epistemological shift in what is expected of a nuclear-physics calculation. (author)

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Journal Title
Few-Body Systems
Journal Volume
63
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 23
ISSN
0177-7963
CODEN
FBSYEQ