Published March 2022
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Journal article
What Hath Weinberg Wrought? Reflections on What Weinberg's Papers on 'Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians' did and did not Accomplish
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701 (United States)
Description
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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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Few-Body Systems
- Journal Volume
- 63
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 23
- ISSN
- 0177-7963
- CODEN
- FBSYEQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Austria
- Country of Input or Organization
- Austria
- INIS RN
- 53084816
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRALITY; CORRELATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; NUCLEAR FORCES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHOTONS; PIONS; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MESONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; WAVE EQUATIONS