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Title: Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of light and medium-mass nuclei with local chiral interactions

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Facility for Rare Isotope Beams; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germany). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI)
  4. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). Dept. of Physics
  5. Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. of Nuclear Physics; GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt (Germany). ExtreMe Matter Inst. (EMMI); Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Germany)

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have recently been employed to study properties of nuclei and infinite matter using local chiral effective-field-theory interactions. In this paper, we present a detailed description of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm for nuclei in combination with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We show results for the binding energy, charge radius, charge form factor, and Coulomb sum rule in nuclei with $$3{\le}A{\le}16$$. Particular attention is devoted to the effect of different operator structures in the three-body force for different cutoffs. Finally, the outcomes suggest that local chiral interactions fit to few-body observables give a very good description of the ground-state properties of nuclei up to $$^{16}\mathrm{O}$$, with the exception of one fit for the softer cutoff which predicts overbinding in larger nuclei.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF); European Research Council (ERC); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; SC0013617; AC02-05CH11231; PHY-1404405; ACI-1548562; 307986; 05P15RDFN1
OSTI ID:
1440450
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1434391
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-21305; TRN: US1900739
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 97, Issue 4; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 54 works
Citation information provided by
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