Topic: Introduction to Effective Field Theories in Hadronic and Nuclear Systems

Speaker: Ubirajara van Kolck, Institut de Physique Nucleaire d’Orsay and University of Arizona

Time: March 28-30 and April 1-5, 15:50-17:25 pm (16 lectures)

Place: Main Middle 304, Main Building, Xueyuanlu Campus

Main contents:

1. Basic EFT ideas

2. Example: Non-Relativisitic QED

3. EFT for Short-range forces

4. Two-body system

5. Three-body system

6. More-body system

7. Halo/Cluster EFT

8. Chiral EFT

9. Pion sector

10. One-nucleon sector

11. Nuclear potential and currents

12. Nuclear observables

13. Renormalization of singular interactions

14. Perturbative pions

15. Partly perturbative pions

16. Conclusion

About the lecture:

Ubirajara van Kolck is directeur de recherche at Institut de Physique Nucleaire d’Orsay (IPNO) and professor at the Department of Physics, University of Arizona. His main research is on Effective Field Theories (EFTs), in particular their applications to problems at the interface between particle and nuclear physics, and to problems in molecular physics. EFTs separate the energy scales in a physical system and use their small ratios as parameters for controlled expansions of low-energy observables, even in the presence of strong interactions among many bodies. Nuclear systems are particularly interesting from a theoretical perspective as they require selective summations of terms in these expansions, while plenty of data exist to confront the theory.

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