Speaker
Evgeny Epelbaum
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Description
The strong interaction between nucleons has been at the heart of nuclear physics since the very beginning of this field. Remarkable progress has been achieved in recent decades towards quantitative understanding of nuclear forces and currents in the framework of chiral effective field theory. Combined with ab-initio few-body methods, this approach opens the way for a systematically improvable and model independent description of light nuclei and low-energy nuclear reactions in harmony with the symmetries of QCD. I will review the current status of nuclear chiral EFT,
highlight selected applications and discuss prospects for the near future.
Primary author
Evgeny Epelbaum
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
