Nuclear reactions at intermediate energies

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700064, India

Published online: 11 May 2016

Abstract

In the domain of Nuclear reactions at intermediate energies, the QCD coupling constant α_s is large enough (~ 0.3 - 0.5) to render the perturbative calculational techniques inapplicable. In this regime the quarks are confined into colorless hadrons and it is expected that effective field theories of hadron interactions via exchange of hadrons, provide useful tools to describe such reactions. In this contribution we discuss the application of one such theory, the effective Lagrangian model, in describing the hadronic reactions at intermediate energies whose measurements are the focus of a vast international experimental program.