scholarly journals Modern topics in theoretical nuclear physics

2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
B K Jennings ◽  
A Schwenk
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Condensed Matter ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Many Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nuclear Systems ◽  
Low Energy Nuclear Physics

Over the past five years there have been profound advances in nuclear physics based on effective field theory and the renormalization group. In this review, we summarize these advances and discuss how they impact our understanding of nuclear systems and experiments that seek to unravel their unknowns. We discuss future opportunities and focus on modern topics in low-energy nuclear physics, with special attention on the strong connections to many-body atomic and condensed-matter physics, as well as to astrophysics. This makes it an exciting era for nuclear physics. PACS Nos.: 21.60.–n, 21.30.Fe

scholarly journals Power counting and Wilsonian renormalization in nuclear effective field theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1641007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Pavón Valderrama
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theories ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Power Counting ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Nuclear Forces

Effective field theories are the most general tool for the description of low energy phenomena. They are universal and systematic: they can be formulated for any low energy systems we can think of and offer a clear guide on how to calculate predictions with reliable error estimates, a feature that is called power counting. These properties can be easily understood in Wilsonian renormalization, in which effective field theories are the low energy renormalization group evolution of a more fundamental — perhaps unknown or unsolvable — high energy theory. In nuclear physics they provide the possibility of a theoretically sound derivation of nuclear forces without having to solve quantum chromodynamics explicitly. However there is the problem of how to organize calculations within nuclear effective field theory: the traditional knowledge about power counting is perturbative but nuclear physics is not. Yet power counting can be derived in Wilsonian renormalization and there is already a fairly good understanding of how to apply these ideas to non-perturbative phenomena and in particular to nuclear physics. Here we review a few of these ideas, explain power counting in two-nucleon scattering and reactions with external probes and hint at how to extend the present analysis beyond the two-body problem.

scholarly journals Constraints on the charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Li ◽  
Xiao-Dong Ma ◽  
Michael A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Neutral Current ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Lepton Number ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Electroweak Scale ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Neutrino Interactions

Abstract In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy measurements is described by the low-energy effective field theory extended with sterile neutrinos (LNEFT) defined below the electroweak scale. We also take into account renormalization group running and match the LNEFT onto the Standard Model (SM) effective field theory with sterile neutrinos (SMNEFT) to constrain new physics (NP) above the electroweak scale. The most sensitive low-energy probes are from leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons and hadronic tau lepton decays in terms of precise decay branching fractions, the lepton flavor universality and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) unitarity. We also consider other constraints including nuclear beta decay. The constraints on charged current operators are generally stronger than the ones for quark-neutrino neutral current operators. We find that the most stringent bounds on the NP scale of lepton-number-conserving and lepton- number-violating operators in SMNEFT are 74 (110) TeV and 9.8 (13) TeV, respectively, for the operators with down (strange) quark.

Effective field theory for low-energy QCD

2014 ◽  
pp. 200-236
Author(s):  
John F. Donoghue ◽  
Eugene Golowich ◽  
Barry R. Holstein
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Low Energy

scholarly journals Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories – Determining the low-energy constants with lattice calculations

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 08011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Bennett ◽  
Deog Ki Hong ◽  
Jong-Wan Lee ◽  
C.-J. David Lin ◽  
Biagio Lucini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Higgs Model ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Dirac Fermion ◽  
Global Symmetry ◽  
Composite Higgs ◽  
Lattice Calculations ◽  
Energy Constants

As a first step towards a quantitative understanding of the SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs model through lattice calculations, we discuss the low energy effective field theory resulting from the SU(4) → Sp(4) global symmetry breaking pattern. We then consider an Sp(4) gauge theory with two Dirac fermion flavours in the fundamental representation on a lattice, which provides a concrete example of the microscopic realisation of the SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs model. For this system, we outline a programme of numerical simulations aiming at the determination of the low-energy constants of the effective field theory and we test the method on the quenched theory. We also report early results from dynamical simulations, focussing on the phase structure of the lattice theory and a calculation of the lowest-lying meson spectrum at coarse lattice spacing.

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