Chiral Symmetry and the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of nuclear forces through the lens of chiral symmetry, highlighting recent progress and insights in the field.

Contribution

It consolidates and updates the theoretical framework connecting chiral symmetry to nucleon-nucleon interactions.

Findings

Chiral symmetry provides a fundamental basis for nuclear force models.

Recent developments have improved the quantitative description of nuclear interactions.

The approach offers a systematic way to derive nuclear potentials from QCD principles.

Abstract

We summarize the current status of our understanding of nuclear forces based upon chiral symmetry--an idea that was advocated by Gerry Brown already several decades ago.