Nuclear forces from chiral effective field theory

Abstract

In this lecture series, I present the recent progress in our understanding of nuclear forces in terms of chiral effective field theory.

Comments: 54 pages, 12 figures; lectures presented at the DAE-BRNS workshop on physics and astrophysics of hadrons and hadronic matter, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Begal, India, November 2006