https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10267-5
QNP 2006
Lattice QCD and nuclear physics
Computations of hadron-hadron scattering
1
Department of Physics, College of William and Mary, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, 23187-8795, Williamsburg, VA, USA
2
Jefferson Laboratory, 23606, Newport News, VA, USA
* e-mail: kostas@wm.edu
Received:
8
December
2006
Accepted:
15
December
2006
Published online:
23
March
2007
A steady stream of developments in lattice QCD have made it possible today to begin to address the question of how nuclear physics emerges from the underlying theory of strong interactions. A central role in this understanding play both the effective-field theory description of nuclear forces and the ability to perform accurate non-perturbative calculations in low-energy QCD. Here I present some recent results that attempt to extract important low-energy constants of the effective-field theory of nuclear forces from lattice QCD.
PACS: 21.30.-x Nuclear forces – / 13.75.Cs Nucleon-nucleon interactions (including antinucleons, deuterons, etc.)[ :AND:] 12.38.Gc Lattice QCD calculations – / 12.38.-t Quantum chromodynamics –
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