2000/05/25 by T.-S. Park, Tae-Sun Park, K. Kubodeera +5 · 25 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #Effective field theory #Field (mathematics) #Field theory (psychology) #Figuring #Neutrino #Nuclear physics research studies #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum field theory #Unified field theory #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(01)00494-8
published in Nuclear Physics A 684(1-4), 101-112 (Elsevier BV) · 11 pages. Invited talk given by MR at the International Conference on Few-Body Problems, Taipei, Taiwan, 6-10 March 2000
arxiv created 2000/05/25 · openalex publication_date 2001/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Fundamental issues involving nuclei in the celebrated solar neutrino problem are discussed in terms of an effective field theory adapted to nuclear few-body systems, with a focus on the proton fusion process and the hep process. Our strategy in addressing these questions is to combine chiral perturbation theory -- an effective field theory of QCD -- with an accurate nuclear physics approach to arrive at a more effective effective field theory that reveals and exploits a subtle role of the chiral-symmetry scale in short-distance effects encoded in short-range nuclear correlations. Our key argument is drawn from the close analogy of the principal weak matrix element figuring in the hep process to the suppressed matrix elements in the polarized neutron-proton capture at threshold currently being measured in the laboratories.