Quantum Hadrodynamics: Evolution and Revolution
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The underlying philosophy and motivation for quantum hadrodynamics (QHD), namely, relativistic field theories of nuclear phenomena featuring manifest covariance, have evolved over the last quarter century in response to successes, failures, and sharp criticisms. A recent revolution in QHD, based on modern effective field theory and density functional theory perspectives, explains the successes, provides antidotes to the failures, rebuts the criticisms, and focuses the arguments in favor of a covariant representation.
18 pages, RevTeX; references added and minor editorial changes; submitted to Comments on Modern Physics
18 pages, RevTeX; references added and minor editorial changes; submitted to Comments on Modern Physics