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Title: Pion-less effective field theory for atomic nuclei and lattice nuclei

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Goteborg (Sweden); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

We compute the medium-mass nuclei 16O and 40Ca using pion-less effective field theory (EFT) at next-to-leading order (NLO). The low-energy coefficients of the EFT Hamiltonian are adjusted to experimental data for nuclei with mass numbers A=2 and 3, or alternatively to results from lattice quantum chromodynamics at an unphysical pion mass of 806 MeV. The EFT is implemented through a discrete variable representation in the harmonic oscillator basis. This approach ensures rapid convergence with respect to the size of the model space and facilitates the computation of medium-mass nuclei. At NLO the nuclei 16O and 40Ca are bound with respect to decay into alpha particles. Binding energies per nucleon are 9–10 MeV and 21–40 MeV at pion masses of 140 and 806 MeV, respectively.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-96ER40963; SC0008499; SC0018223; AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1480266
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1480369; OSTI ID: 1546553
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 98, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 42 works
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