TALENT / INT Course on Nuclear Forces

References

Contents

Note: If you cannot access any of the references below, please contact one of the instructors.

Lectures

Author(s)	Title	Comments
Peter Lepage	How to renormalize the Schrödinger equation	Classic hands-on introduction to principles of effective field theory and renormalization in ordinary quantum mechanics.
Evgeny Epelbaum	Nuclear forces from chiral effective field theory: a primer	Write-up of introductory lectures on the modern approach to the nuclear force problem based on chiral effective field theory given at the 2009 Joliot-Curie School, Lacanau, France, 27 September - 3 October 2009.
Bira van Kolck	Introduction to Effective Field Theories in QCD [slides here]	Slides from three lectures in 2011 at GANIL. Includes a detailed non-relativistic QED example.
Peter Lepage	What is renormalization?	Renormalization of cut-off field theory. (Not so accessible without field theory background.)
Gerhard Ecker	Quantum Chromodynamics	Lectures on QCD from a 2005 summer school. "The main theme is effective field theories, from heavy quarks to the light quark sector where the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of QCD plays a crucial role."
Xiangdong Ji	A Modern Introduction to Nuclear Physics	Lecture notes from a course given at the University of Maryland.
Dick Furnstahl	The Renormalization Group in Nuclear Physics	Lectures on the RG from the Schladming Winter School.
David Kaplan	Five lectures on effective field theory	Lectures delivered at the 17th National Nuclear Physics Summer School in 2005.

Review articles

Author(s)	Title	Comments
H.-W. Hammer, A. Nogga, A. Schwenk	Three-body forces: From cold atoms to nuclei	Recent review from Reviews of Modern Physics (2013).
R. Machleidt, D.R. Entem	Chiral effective field theory and nuclear forces	Physics Reports (2011). Includes detailed appendices useful for new (and old!) practitioners.
E. Epelbaum, H.-W. Hammer, U.-G. Meissner	Modern Theory of Nuclear Forces	Comprehensive review from Reviews of Modern Physics (2009).
S.R. Beane, P.F. Bedaque, W.C. Haxton, D.R. Phillips, M.J. Savage	From hadrons to nuclei: Crossing the border	Summary of the state of EFT for nuclear physics around 2000.
S.K. Bogner, R.J. Furnstahl, A. Schwenk	From low-momentum interactions to nuclear structure	Review of RG-evolved forces for nuclei from Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics (2010).
R.J. Furnstahl, K. Hebeler	New applications of renormalization group methods in nuclear physics	Recent update on the use RG methods.
S. Scherer and M.R. Schindler	A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Theory	An extensive introduction to chiral perturbation theory (for mesons and baryons, with general discussion of effective field theories but not chiral EFT for more than one nucleon).

Essays

Author(s)	Title	Comments
Steven Weinberg	Effective Field Theory, Past and Future	How EFT came about from Weinberg's perspective, with his usual cogent insights.
Steven Weinberg	Why the renormalization group is a good thing	General consideration of RG methods; may need some field theory background to fully appreciate.
R. Machleidt and D.R. Entem	Nuclear forces from chiral EFT: the unfinished business [arXiv]	From a J. Phys. G focus issue on open problems in nuclear structure theory.
R.J. Furnstahl and A. Schwenk	How should one formulate, extract, and interpret `non-observables' for nuclei? [arXiv]	From a J. Phys. G focus issue on open problems in nuclear structure theory.
R.J. Furnstahl and A. Schwenk	Is chiral symmetry manifested in nuclear structure? [arXiv]	From a J. Phys. G focus issue on open problems in nuclear structure theory.
I. Stetcu, J. Rotureau, B.R. Barrett, and U. van Kolck	Effective interactions for light nuclei: an effective (field theory) approach [arXiv]	From a J. Phys. G focus issue on open problems in nuclear structure theory.
M. Hjorth-Jensen, D.J. Dean, G. Hagen, and S. Kvaal	Many-body interactions and nuclear structure [arXiv]	From a J. Phys. G focus issue on open problems in nuclear structure theory.
Stephan Hartmann	Effective Field Theories, Reductionism and Scientific Explanation	Essay on EFT from the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.
M.J. Duff, L.B. Okun, and G. Veneziano	Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants	Fun debate on how many fundamental dimensionful constants there are in physics.

Textbooks

Author(s)	Title	Comments
S.S.M. Wong	Introductory Nuclear Physics	[Wiley-VCH (1999); ISBN 0471239739]
J.M. Arias and M. Lozano	An Advanced Course in Modern Nuclear Physics	[Springer (2009); ISBN 3642076246]
A.Bohr and B.R. Mottelson	Nuclear Structure	[Benjamin NY (1969)]
P.Ring and P. Schuck	The Nuclear Many-Body Problem	[Springer (2004); ISBN 354021206X]
Rubin Landau	Quantum Mechanics II	You can get Appendix A on natural units and Appendix B on representations (e.g., in energy and angular momentum basis) online.
Roger Newton	Scattering Theory of Waves and Particles	Classic authoritative book on quantum mechanical scattering. Second edition now available as a (relatively :) inexpensive (e.g., on Amazon) paperback from Dover.
A. Zee	Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, 2nd ed.	Relevant quote from Frank Wilczek: "Quantum field theory is an extraordinarily beautiful subject, but it can be an intimidating one. The profound and deeply physical concepts it embodies can get lost, to the beginner, amidst its technicalities. In this book, Zee imparts the wisdom of an experienced and remarkably creative practitioner in a user-friendly style. I wish something like it had been available when I was a student."

Pedagogical topics and resource letters

Author(s)	Title	Comments
M.A. Morrison and A.N. Feldt	Through scattering theory with gun and camera: Coping with conventions in collision theory	An accessible guide to the conventions of scattering theory, with summaries of scattering amplitude formulas, the Lippmann-Schwinger equation and partial-wave decomposition. [Note: in equation (13), the exponent should be 3 and not 3/2.]
F. Olness and R. Scalise	Regularization, renormalization, and dimensional analysis: Dimensional regularization meets freshman E&M (2011)	An introduction to dimensional (and cutoff) regularization using an example from electrostatics.
A.S. Kronfeld and C. Quigg	Resource Letter QCD-1: Quantum chromodynamics (2010)	Pointers to the relevant literature for all things QCD.
Jonathan L. Rosner	Resource Letter: SM-1: The standard model and beyond (2003)	References at all levels (from popular to technical) on the Standard Model (from 2003).
Rubin Landau	Resource Letter CP-2: Computational Physics (2008)	Suggested references for learning computational physics and various languages and computing tools.
R.K. Bhaduri, A. Chatterjee, B.P. van Zyl	An elementary exposition of the Efimov effect	The Efimov effect with ordinary quantum mechanics.
D.J. Dean and J.H. Hamilton	Resource Letter NSM-1: New insights into the nuclear shell model (2011)	Guide to the literature on the shell model as of 2010. Note: there are important subsequent developments.
Barry R. Holstein	Blue skies and effective interactions	"This paper shows how the basic physics of Rayleigh scattering, responsible for the blueness of the sky, can be extracted using the techniques of effective interactions, which have become widespread in contemporary particle and nuclear physics."
Barry R. Holstein	Effective interactions and the hydrogen atom	Effective field theory and effective theory (at quantum mechanics level) for the hydrogen atom.
Bertrand Delamotte	A hint of renormalization	"An elementary introduction to perturbative renormalization and renormalization group is presented. No prior knowledge of field theory is necessary because we do not refer to a particular physical theory."