New applications of Renormalization Group methods to nuclear matter

Abstract

We give an overview of recent results for the nuclear equation of state and properties of neutron stars based on microscopic two- and three-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory (EFT). It is demonstrated that the application of Renormalization Group (RG) transformations allows efficient, controlled and simplified calculations of nuclear matter.

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, proceedings contribution for the Eleventh Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2012)