Abstract
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is considered to be the underlying theory for strong interactions. This means that the nucleon-nucleon interaction can be calculated, in principle, on the basis of QCD. However, in practice to calculate the NN force for nuclear-structure purposes, one needs to know this interaction at low energies and momenta, i.e. in the region where QCD cannot be treated perturbatively. Lattice QCD methods cannot be used in tins case either, the system of two nucleons being still too complicated a system for tins type of calculation. There is another way to construct the NN interaction within the Bethe-Salpeter approach with separable kernel, which was developed in [21], but this method will not be described here.
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Savushkin, L.N., Toki, H. (2004). Basic Features of the Meson Theory of Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions. In: The Atomic Nucleus as a Relativistic System. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10309-8_3
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