New approach to NN with perturbative pions

Abstract

The current status of effective field theory (EFT) descriptions of nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions is briefly reviewed, and a new formulation of EFT which treats pion interactions perturbatively is presented. This approach differs from the Kaplan-Savage-Wise (KSW) expansion in that the singular short distance part of the pion tensor interaction is summed to all orders.

Comments: 8 pages, 7 figures, Talk given at 6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Bern, Switzerland, 6-10 Jul 2009