Properties of Nuclei up to A=16 using Local Chiral Interactions

Lonardoni, Diego; Carlson, Joseph; Gandolfi, Stefano; Lynn, J. E.; Schmidt, K. E.; Schwenk, A.; Wang, X. B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.122502

Title: Properties of Nuclei up to $A = 16$ using Local Chiral Interactions

Journal Article · 22 March 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.122502 · OSTI ID:1432621

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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Theoretical Division
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germandy). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI)
Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germandy). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI); Max-Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Germany)
Huzhou Univ. (China). School of Science

Here, we report accurate quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei up to A = 16 based on local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We examine the theoretical uncertainties associated with the chiral expansion and the cutoff in the theory, as well as the associated operator choices in the three-nucleon interactions. While in light nuclei the cutoff variation and systematic uncertainties are rather small, in ¹⁶O these can be significant for large coordinate-space cutoffs. Overall, we show that chiral interactions constructed to reproduce properties of very light systems and nucleon-nucleon scattering give an excellent description of binding energies, charge radii, and form factors for all these nuclei, including open-shell systems in A = 6 and 12.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC). Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26); European Research Council (ERC); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; SC0013617; 307986; 05P15RDFN1; PHY-1404405; 11505056; U1732138; 11605054; AC02- 05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1432621

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1427886

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-28568; PRLTAO; TRN: US1802529

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 120, Issue 12; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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