Nuclear Forces and QCD: Never the
Twain Shall Meet?
ECT* Trento: June 20th-July 1st 2005
Organisers Ben Gibson, Judith McGovern, Rob Timmermans and Bira van
Kolck
Trento and Monte Bondone http://www.apt.trento.it/
Nuclear forces form the basis for our understanding of much of
nuclear physics, both structure and reactions. In the nearly six
decades since the discovery of the pion, progress in comprehending the
two-nucleon interaction and consistent few-nucleon forces has been
slow. The connection to the 30-years-old theory of the strong
interaction, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), remains an enigma.
However, in the last decade, and particularly since the 1999 ECT*
workshop entitled ``The nuclear interaction: modern developments'',
important advances have opened new doors to better understanding of
nuclear forces.
In June 2005 another workshop in this series will be held, entitled
"Nuclear Forces and QCD: Never the Twain Shall Meet?" The
focus of the workshop will be on the following themes:
* Formulation of two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces and their
relation to low-energy pion-nucleon scattering, including the
implications of chiral symmetry and coupling constant constraints from
large N_C and lattice approaches.
* Few-body and many-body constraints on the nuclear force coming from
calculations of the structure of light nuclei plus few-nucleon
scattering and reactions.
Both themes will be spread over the full period to encourage discussion
among participants from different backgrounds.
Participation is by invitation. Please contact judith.mcgovern@manchester.ac.uk
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November 2004