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We discuss here some non-perturbative techniques of field theory as applied to nuclear physics. We first describe Walecka’s mean field approach and its generalizations with a many-body description. We next apply to nuclear matter a new approach to strongly interacting systems, of which Walecka’s method becomes a specific approximation. The phenomenological implications of the same are also discussed.
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Misra, S.P. Field-theoretic methods in nuclear physics: A reappraisal. Pramana - J Phys 32, 377–388 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02845971
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