Nuclear physics without high-momentum potentials: Constructing the nuclear effective interaction directly from scattering observables

McElvain, K. S.; Haxton, W. C.

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134880

Title: Nuclear physics without high-momentum potentials: Constructing the nuclear effective interaction directly from scattering observables

Journal Article · Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physics Letters. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134880· OSTI ID:1559062

; Haxton, W. C.

The traditional approach to nuclear physics encodes phase shift information in a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential, producing a nucleon-level interaction that captures the sub-GeV consequences of QCD. A further reduction to the nuclear scale is needed to produce an effective interaction for soft Hilbert spaces, such as those employed in the shell model. Here we describe an alternative construction of the effective interaction that is simple and quite precise, proceeding from the QCD scale directly to the nuclear scale. This eliminates the need for constructing and renormalizing the high-momentum NN potential. Instead, continuum phase shifts and mixing angles are used directly at the nuclear scale. The method exploits the analytic continuity in energy of HOBET (Harmonic-Oscillator-Based Effective Theory) to connect bound states to continuum solutions at specific energies. The procedure is systematic, cutoff independent, and convergent, yielding keV accuracy at NNLO or N³LO, depending on the channel. Lepage plots are provided.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00046548; AC02-05CH11231; KB0301052; SC0015376

OSTI ID:: 1559062

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1580933

Journal Information:: Physics Letters. B, Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Vol. 797 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693

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Language:: English

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