https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00092-1
Regular Article -Theoretical Physics
Naturalness in nuclear effective field theories
1
Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406, Orsay, France
2
Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
* e-mail: vankolck@ipno.in2p3.fr
Received:
11
November
2019
Accepted:
6
January
2020
Published online:
25
March
2020
Nuclear effective field theories (EFTs) have been developed over the last quarter-century with considerable impact on the description of light and even medium-mass nuclei. At the core of any EFT is a systematic expansion of observables, which is usually obtained from a rule based on an assumption of naturalness. I discuss naturalness in the context of the relatively weak binding of nuclei, where discrete scale invariance plays a role in the emergence of complexity.
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