Abstract
Global symmetries and symmetry breaking patterns of QCD with light quarks, in particular chiral symmetry, provide basic guidance not only for low-energy hadron physics but also for nuclear forces and the nuclear many-body problem. Recent developments of Chiral Effective Field Theory (ChEFT) applications to nuclear and neutron matter are summarized, with special emphasis on a (nonperturbative) extension using functional renormalization group methods. Topics include: nuclear thermodynamics, extrapolations to dense baryonic matter and constraints from neutron star observables.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1840004 |
Journal | International Journal of Modern Physics E |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Low-energy QCD
- chiral symmetry
- dense nuclear matter
- neutron stars