Nuclear Forces and QCD: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

ECT* Trento: June 20th-July 1st 2005

Programme

Council of Trent, opening 1548/ photo by Fr.Richard J. Blinn SJ http://www.ignatiushistory.info

The talks given at this workshop can be accessed here

Week 1	Monday 20-6	Tuesday 21-6	Wednesday 22-6	Thursday 23-6	Friday 24-6
9.15-10.30	Timmermans	Carlson	Coraggio	Kievsky	Quaglioni
10.30-11.00	coffee
11.00-12.15	Friar	de Swart	Gross	Machleidt	Ruiz Arriola
12.30-13.30	lunch
16.00-16.30	coffee
16.30-17.45	Vigdor	Nogga	Pederiva	Gardestig	Thomas
17.45-19.00	Navratil	Schwenk	Dean	Horowitz	Zuker

Week 2	Monday 27-6	Tuesday 28-6	Wednesday 29-6	Thursday 30-6	Friday 1-7
9.15-10.30	Lazauskas	Deltuva	Marcucci	Oka	Cohen
10.30-11.00	coffee
11.00-12.15	Rentmeester	Epelbaum	Higa	Pavon Valderrama	van Kolck
12.30-13.30	lunch
16.00-16.30	coffee
16.30-17.45	Griesshammer	Birse	Hemmert	Phillips
17.45-19.00	Truhlik	Kaiser	Stetcu	Weise

One and a quarter hours is allocated to each talk and its discussion. This should be roughly in the ratio of 45 minutes of talk and 30 minutes of discussion - though not necessarily strictly in that order, since questions during the talks are encouraged.

Participants and Contributions

●Mike Birse, University of Manchester, U.K.,
``Renormalization group for nuclear forces.''

●Joe Carlson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.,
``Constraints on three-nucleon forces from scattering in light nuclear systems.''

●Tom Cohen, University of Maryland, U.S.A.,
``The George Bertsch problem revisited.''

●Luigi Coraggio, Naples University & INFN Naples, Italy,
``Calculations for Finite Nuclei Using Low-Momentum Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions''

●David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.,
``Applications of coupled-cluster theory to nuclei using various approaches to the effective interaction.''

●Arnoldas Deltuva, University of Lisbon, Portugal,
``Momentum-space treatment of Coulomb interaction in hadronic and electromagnetic three-nucleon reactions.''

●Evgeny Epelbaum, TJNAF, U.S.A.,
``Few-nucleon forces at N3LO.''

●Guray Erkol, KVI, University of Groningen,
Title to be announced.

●Jim Friar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.,
``How far have we come? A brief history of the nuclear force.''

●Anders Gardestig, Ohio University, Athens, U.S.A.,
``The reaction in chiral perturbation theory.''

●Ben Gibson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.,
Organizer.

●Harald Griesshammer, Technical University Munich, Germany,
``Three-nucleon forces in EFT without pions.''

●Franz Gross, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, U.S.A.,
``Progress report on the application of effective field theory techniques to NN interactions at GeV energies.''

●Thomas Hemmert, Technical University Munich, Germany,
``Long- and short-distance physics in effective field theory.''

●Renato Higa, TJNAF, U.S.A.,
``Peripheral NN scattering and the role of pi-N LECs.''

●Charles Horowitz, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.,
``The virial equation of state of nuclear matter at low density and NN and few-body scattering.''

●Norbert Kaiser, Technical University Munich, Germany,
``The status of chiral dynamics of nuclear matter.''

●Alejandro Kievsky, University of Pisa, Italy,
``Bound and scattering states in three- and four-nucleon systems.''

●Bira van Kolck, University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A.,
Organizer.

●Rimantas Lazauskas, Centre d'Etudes Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France,
``Hadronic resonances in four-nucleon systems.''

●Ruprecht Machleidt, University of Idaho, U.S.A.,
``From the deuteron to the TeV region: How well do we know the nucleon-nucleon interaction?''

●Laura Marcucci, University of Pisa, Italy,
``Electromagnetic structure of few-nucleon systems.''

●Judith McGovern, University of Manchester, U.K.,
Organizer.

●Petr Navratil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A.,
``Testing nuclear forces in many-body calculations.''

●Andreas Nogga, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany,
``Renormalization of the 1- exchange interaction in higher partial waves.''

●Makoto Oka, Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan,
``QCD Sum Rules approach to pion-baryon coupling constants.''

●Manolo Pavon Valderrama, Granada University, Spain,
``The role of chiral couplings in the NN interaction.''

●Francesco Pederiva, University of Trento,
``AFDMC and its application to neutron drops.''

●Daniel Phillips, Ohio University, Athens, U.S.A.,
``The role of the Delta-isobar in nuclear effective theory.''

●Sofia Quaglioni, Trento, Italy,
``Electromagnetic two-body breakup of 4He.''

●Mart Rentmeester, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
``News from the PWA front.''

●Enrique Ruiz Arriola, Granada University, Spain,
``Finite cutoff effects and renormalization in the NN interaction.''

●Achim Schwenk, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.,
``Advantages of low-momentum interactions based on applications to few-nucleon systems and nuclear matter.''

●Ionel Stetcu, University of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A.,
``The no-core shell model with a twist.''

● Johan de Swart, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
`` Doctoring Data ''

● Rob Timmermans, KVI, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
Organizer.

● Emil Truhlik, Nuclear Physics Institute, Rez, Czech Republic,
``The role of the pion pair term in the theory of the weak axial meson exchange currents.''

● Tony Thomas, TJNAF, U.S.A,
``The origins of nuclear structure in QCD: A 21st century view.''

● Steve Vigdor, IUCF & Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.,
``Measuring precise absolute np scattering cross sections at intermediate energies.''

●Wolfram Weise, Technical University Munich, Germany,
``Nuclear energy density functional constrained by low-energy QCD and chiral symmetry: Recent results.''

●Andres Zuker, IReS, Strasbourg, France,
``Precision interactions: A shell-model view.''

June 15^th 2005