Building light nuclei from neutrons, protons, and pions

Abstract

In these lectures I first explain, in a rather basic fashion, the construction of effective field theories. I then discuss some recent developments in the application of such theories to two- and three-nucleon systems.

Comments: 54 pages, uses czjphys.cls. Lectures given at 14th Summer School "Understanding the Structure of Hadrons", Prague, July 2001. To appear in Czechoslovak Journal of Physics