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Title: Light-Nuclei Spectra from Chiral Dynamics

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
  2. Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Salento, Lecce (Italy). Dept. of Mathematics and Physics; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Lecce (Italy)
  4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pisa (Italy)
  5. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Povo (Italy). Trento Inst.
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Mathematics and Computer Science Division
  7. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Pisa (Italy); Univ. of Pisa (Italy). Dept. of Physics
  8. Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States). Theory Center

In recent years local chiral interactions have been derived and implemented in quantum Monte Carlo methods in order to test to what extent the chiral effective field theory framework impacts our knowledge of few- and many-body systems. Here in this Letter, we present Green’s function Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei based on the family of local two-body interactions presented by our group in a previous paper in conjunction with chiral three-body interactions fitted to bound- and scattering-state observables in the three-nucleon sector. These interactions include Δ intermediate states in their two-pion-exchange components. We obtain predictions for the energy levels and level ordering of nuclei in the mass range A=4–12, accurate to ≤2% of the binding energy, in very satisfactory agreement with experimental data.

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (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:
AC02-06CH11357; AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
1419749
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1419117; OSTI ID: 1425280
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-17-2516; DOE/OR/-23177-4180; arXiv:1707.02883; PRLTAO; TRN: US1801384
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 5; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 90 works
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