From Fundamental Fields to Nuclear Phenomena

Abstract

Research in nuclear physics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. At the interface of nuclear and particle physics, there are efforts to understand the nucleon and the NN interaction based on the underlying quark substructure as described by a fundamental field theory (QCD). There are also substantial efforts to apply field theories to broader areas of nuclear physics, including nucleon-nucleon scattering, nuclear structure, relativistic transport theory, and ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Many of the techniques applied to these processes have been borrowed from atomic physics, where applications of a fundamental field theory (QED) have become standard technology. This workshop concentrated on a variety of open problems in the application of field theory to nuclear phenomena and brought together a diverse group of theoreticians working in nuclear, particle and atomic physics. Separate abstracts were prepared for 23 papers of this conference.