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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
Effective Field Theory of Light Nuclei
Date: Thursday, May 1st
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: 4274 Chamberlin Hall
Speaker: Bira van Kolck, University of Arizona
Abstract: Nucleons in light nuclei have binding momenta smaller than the pion mass. In this energy regime, strong interactions can be described by effective field theories (EFTs) where all nuclear interactions are of contact type. I will discuss some of the features of these EFTs such as unusual renormalization leading to limit cycles, universal behavior in three-body systems, and a surprising amount of fine-tuning.
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