Astrophysical weak-interaction processes and nuclear effective field theory

Abstract

Low-energy nuclear weak-interaction processes play important roles in many astrophysical contexts, and effective field theory is believed to be a highly useful framework for describing these processes in a model-independent manner. I present a brief account of the basic features of the nuclear effective theory approach, and some examples of actual calculations carried out in this method.

Comments: 13 pages, Invited talk at the KIAS-APCTP Astro-Hadron Symposium, KIAS, Seoul, Korea, November 10-14, 2003