Scott Bogner, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Date: 2017
Quark-gluon degrees of freedom (DOF) are optimal to describe the strong force dynamics of nuclei.
Nevertheless, the low-energy Effective Field Theory (EFT) that underpin our modern understanding if internucleon forces are clearly related to the underlying symmetries of QCD
Moreover, as we will see later in the course, remarkable progress is being made in lattice QCD so that dired calculations of few-nucleon systems with nucleat forces are becoming closer to reality.
Therefore, even though 95% of this course will be devoted to a description in terms of nucleons and pions, it is useful to give a bird's-eye view of QCD.
If you are not too familiar with quantum field theory or QCD. Our presentation here is necessarily impressionistic and meant only to remind you of what is governing things at a fundamental level.