Renormalization and power counting of chiral nuclear forces

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I discuss the progress we have made on modifying Weinberg's prescription for chiral nuclear forces, using renormalization group invariance as the guideline. Some of the published results are presented.

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Modern Theory of Nuclear Forces

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Effective field theory allows for a systematic and model-independent derivation of the forces between nucleons in harmony with the symmetries of Quantum Chromodynamics. We review the foundations of this approach and discuss its application for light nuclei at various resolution scales. The extension of this approach to many-body systems is briefly sketched.

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Renormalizing Chiral Nuclear Forces: Triplet Channels

Bingwei Long, Chieh-Jen Yang (2011)

We discuss the subleading contact interactions, or counterterms, of the triplet channels of nucleon-nucleon scattering in the framework of chiral effective field theory, with S and P waves as the examples. The triplet channels are special in that they allow the singular attraction of one-pion exchange to modify Weinberg's original power counting (WPC) scheme. With renormalization group invariance as the constraint, our power counting for the triplet channels can be summarized as a modified version of naive dimensional analysis in which, when compared with WPC, all of the counterterms in a given partial wave (leading or subleading) are enhanced by the same amount. More specifically, this means that WPC needs no modification in 3S1-3D1 and 3P1, whereas a two-order enhancement is necessary in both 3P0 and 3P2 - 3F2.