Hadronic interactions and nuclear physics

Abstract

I give an overview of efforts in the last year to calculate interactions among hadrons using lattice QCD. Results discussed include the extraction of low-energy phase shifts and three-body interactions, and the study of pion and kaon condensation. A critical appraisal is offered of recent attempts to calculate nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-hyperon potentials on the lattice.

Comments: 15 pages, 16 figures, Talk given at 26th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2008), Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, July 14-20, 2008