From Hadrons to Nuclei: Crossing the Border

Abstract

The study of nuclei predates by many years the theory of quantum chromodynamics. More recently, effective field theories have been used in nuclear physics to ``cross the border'' from QCD to a nuclear theory. We are now entering the second decade of efforts to develop a perturbative theory of nuclear interactions using effective field theory. This work describes the current status of these efforts.

Comments: 141 pages, 58 figs, latex. To appear in the Boris Ioffe Festschrift, ed. by M. Shifman, World Scientific