I will review recent progress in our understanding of the nuclear force. In the course of the 1990’s, so-called high-precision, charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon potentials have been constructed which are, essentially, phenomenological models. These potentials are now commonly used as input for exact few-body calculations and microscopic nuclear many-body theory. I will critically analyses those...

A piece of standard wisdom in nuclear physics has been the long distance dominance of pion exchanges of the nuclear force while the short range component is fairly unknown [ 1]. Such a situation seems a fertile ground for Effective Field Theories [ 2, 3]. Actually, the functional dependence of the long range piece is calculable within chiral perturbation theory [ 4, 5] yielding for the reduced ...

We study a relation between nuclear forces based on phenomenological approach (Vph) and nuclear effective field theory (VEFT ) from a viewpoint of renormalization group. We find the relation between these two types of nuclear force using Wilsonian renormalization group equation. Considering the fact that VEFT is defined in a certain small model space, we show that a simple contact interaction a...

We present our updated results of the nucleon-nucleon potential in quenched lattice QCD simulations with the plaquette gauge action and the Wilson quark action on the 324(≃ (4.4fm)4) lattice. From the equal-time Bethe-Salpeter (BS) wave function, the NN potential is constructed through the Schrödinger-type equation. Resulting NN potential has all the qualitative features which phenomenological ...

How cells maintain nuclear shape and position against various intracellular and extracellular forces is not well understood, although defects in nuclear mechanical homeostasis are associated with a variety of human diseases. We estimated the force required to displace and deform the nucleus in adherent living cells with a technique to locally pull the nuclear surface. A minimum pulling force of...

Abstract This paper contributes a novel way to theorise the power of narratives nuclear weapons politics through Kenneth Burke's concept entelechy: means stating things essence narrating its beginning or end. The argues that Manhattan Project functions narratively in discourse as an origin myth, so repeated telling atomic creation over time frames possibilities today. By linking work on entelec...

In eukaryotic cells, the nucleus contains the genome and is the site of transcriptional regulation. The nucleus is the largest and stiffest organelle and is exposed to mechanical forces transmitted through the cytoskeleton from outside the cell and from force generation within the cell. Here, we discuss the effect of intra- and extracellular forces on nuclear shape and structure and how these f...