Effective Field Theory and Electroweak Processes in Nuclei

Abstract

The accurate theoretical treatment of low-energy electro-weak processes in lightest nuclei is of great current importance not only in the context of nuclear physics {\it per se} but also from the astrophysical and particle-physics viewpoints. I give a brief survey of the recent remarkable progress in this domain.

Comments: Talk given at the Erice School 2009, Erice, Italy, September 2009