EuNPC2015

Pear-shaped nuclei, those having quadrupole-octupole deformation, are predicted to occur in around the octupole magic numbers of 34, 56, 88 and 134. At these numbers of neutrons and protons, the Fermi surface lies close to single-particle orbitals with quantum numbers [l,j] and [l-3,j-3]. This enhances particle-hole interactions in the octupole part of the nucleon-nucleon force and is the...

In this talk I will present some of the recent developments in relativistic Chiral Effective Field Theory with Baryons. I will focus on the application of this formulation to the pion-nucleon scattering process at low energies, and on how to extract important information out of this reaction with Chiral EFT. As the most prominent example, I will consider the extraction of the pion-nucleon...