Colloquium

Simplifying the Nuclear Many-Body Problem with the Renormalization Group

Dr. Scott K. Bogner
Ohio State University

Tuesday, November 21, 2006   2:00 p.m.  NSH 127

(Refreshments at 1:30 p.m. NSH 202)

 

A fundamental goal of nuclear theory is to calculate the properties of nuclei within an ab-initio framework with controlled approximations. As nucleons are strongly-interacting composite particles with complicaed interactions, nuclear few- and many-body calculations have heretofore required highly correlated variational wave functions, non-perturbative resummations, and intensive computational efforts to make even modest progress. In this talk, I describe how renormalization group (RG) and effective field theory (EFT) methods can be used to eliminate all of the preceding difficulties.

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