Nuclear clusters with Halo Effective Field Theory

Abstract

After a brief discussion of effective field theory applied to nuclear clusters, I present the aspect of Coulomb interactions, with applications to low-energy alpha-alpha and nucleon-alpha scattering.

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, plenary talk given at the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics 2008, Depok, Indonesia, August 19 - 23, 2008