arXiv:nucl-th/9908005·v2·Nuclear Theory
Describing Nuclear Matter with Effective Field Theories
James V. Steele🇺🇸 · R. J. Furnstahl🇺🇸
Abstract
An accurate description of nuclear matter starting from free-space nuclear forces has been an elusive goal. The complexity of the system makes approximations inevitable, so the challenge is to find a consistent truncation scheme with controlled errors. The virtues of an effective field theory approach to this problem are discussed.
Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the Proceedings of the 15th Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC 99), Uppsala, Sweden, June 10-16, 1999; minor change to Eq. 4