Current noise and Coulomb effects in superconducting contacts

We derive an effective action for contacts between superconducting terminals with arbitrary transmission distribution of conducting channels. In the case of normal-superconducting (NS) contacts we evaluate interaction correction to Andreev conductance and demonstrate a close relation between Coulomb effects and shot noise in these systems. In the case of superconducting (SS) contacts we derive the electron-electron interaction correction to the Josephson current. At T = 0 both corrections are found to vanish for fully transparent NS and SS contacts indicating the absence of Coulomb effects in this limit.