Neutrino-nucleus reactions and effective field theory

Abstract

Effetive field theory is believed to provide a useful framework for describing low-energy nuclear phenomena in a model-independent fashion. I give here a brief account of the basic features of this approach, some of its latest developments, and examples of actual calculations carried out in this framework.

Comments: 12 pages, Invited talk at the First Yamada Symposium on Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Nuclear Phyiscs (NDM03), Nara, Japan, June 2003