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Weinberg's dimensional power counting for nuclei is reprised in this primer. The role of QCD and chiral symmetry in constructing effective Lagrangians is discussed. The two-scale hypothesis of Manohar and Georgi is combined with power counting in amplitudes to shed light on the scales of nuclear kinetic and potential energies, the size of strong-interaction coupling constants, the size of meson-exchange currents, and the relative sizes of many-nucleon forces. Numerous examples are worked out and compared to conventional nuclear models.
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Received July 12, 1996; revised November 17, 1996; accepted for publication February 10, 1997
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Friar, J. Dimensional Power Counting in Nuclei. Few-Body Systems 22, 161–193 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s006010050059
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