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Title: Lattice Effective Field Theory Calculations for A=3, 4, 6, 12 Nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Institut fuer Kernphysik (IKP-3) and Juelich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich (Germany)
  2. Helmholtz-Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik (Theorie) and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universitaet Bonn, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
  3. Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (United States)

We present lattice results for the ground state energies of tritium, helium-3, helium-4, lithium-6, and carbon-12 nuclei. Our analysis includes isospin breaking, Coulomb effects, and interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory.

OSTI ID:
21410627
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 14; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.142501; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English