# Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

## TL;DR

This paper reviews the current status and future perspectives of nuclear effective field theories, discussing their connections to the Standard Model, their different regimes, and their applications to nuclear structure and reactions.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the three main nuclear EFTs—Chiral, Pionless, and Halo/Cluster—and their roles in understanding nuclear phenomena from first principles.

## Key findings

- Comparison of different EFT frameworks and their applicability.
- Survey of nuclear properties derived from ab initio EFT calculations.
- Discussion of the integration of EFTs with lattice QCD simulations.

## Abstract

The nuclear physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field theories (EFTs) connected to the Standard Model through symmetries and lattice simulations of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). EFTs in this sequence are expansions around different low-energy limits of QCD, each with its own characteristics, scales, and ranges of applicability regarding energy and number of nucleons. We review each of the three main nuclear EFTs -- Chiral, Pionless, Halo/Cluster -- highlighting their similarities, differences, and connections. In doing so, we survey the structural properties and reactions of nuclei that have been derived from the ab initio solution of the few- and many-body problem built upon EFT input.