What Hath Weinberg Wrought? Reflections on What Weinberg’s Papers on ‘Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians’ did and did not Accomplish
Journal Article
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· Few-Body Systems
- Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States); Ohio University
Here, 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 Schrodinger equation; (3) the emergence of "pionless 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.
- Research Organization:
- Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-93ER40756
- OSTI ID:
- 1872776
- Journal Information:
- Few-Body Systems, Journal Name: Few-Body Systems Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 63; ISSN 0177-7963
- Publisher:
- SpringerCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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