Effective Field Theory with Two and Three Nucleons

Abstract

Progress in the Effective Field Theory of two and three nucleon systems is sketched, concentrating on the low energy version in which pions are integrated out as explicit degrees of freedom. Examples given are calculations of deuteron Compton scattering, three body forces and the triton, and nd partial waves.

Comments: 11 pages LaTeX2e with 8 figures, using includegraphicx (6 .eps figures) and feynmp (necessary Metapost files included). Invited plenary talk at the XVIIth European Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics, Évora (Portugal) 11th -- 16th September 2000; to be published in the Proceedings