1:30 PM–3:18 PM, Monday, April 24, 2006
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Marsalis A
Sponsoring Unit:
GFB
Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.APR.Q4.3
2:42 PM–3:18 PM
Evgeny Epelbaum
( Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
It is well known from microscopic few- and many-body studies that three-nucleon forces are important for quantitative understanding of various phenomena in nuclear physics. Three-nucleon forces that cannot be reduced to pair-wise nucleon-nucleon interactions arise naturally in the context of meson-exchange theory and at the more fundamental level of QCD. Chiral effective field theory provides a powerful and promising approach to determine two-, three- and more-nucleon forces in a systematic way based on the approximate and spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of QCD. Recent developments along these lines will be discussed. Future directions in this field will be outlined.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2006.APR.Q4.3