Local chiral EFT potentials in nuclei and neutron matter: results and issues

Lonardoni, Diego; Tews, Ingo

doi:10.22323/1.317.0100

Title: Local chiral EFT potentials in nuclei and neutron matter: results and issues

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In recent years, the combination of advanced quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and local interactions derived from chiral effective field theory (EFT) has been shown to provide a versatile and systematic approach to nuclear systems. Calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral EFT have lead to fascinating results for nuclei and nucleonic matter. On the one hand, ground-state properties of nuclei are well reproduced up to A $$≤$$ 16, even though these potentials have been fit to nucleon-nucleon scattering and few-body observables only. On the other hand, a reasonable description of neutron-matter properties emerges. While regulator functions applied to two- and three-nucleon forces are a necessary ingredient in these many-body calculations, the use of local regulators leads to a substantial residual regulator and cutoff dependence that increases current theoretical uncertainties. In this contribution, we review local chiral interactions, their applications, and QMC results for nuclei and neutron matter. In addition, we address regulator issues for such potentials and present a possible path forward.

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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)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2020

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC). Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); FRIB Theory Alliance; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

OSTI Identifier:: 1605124

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-22185
Journal ID: ISSN 1824-8039; TRN: US2104468

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; SC0013617; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: PoS - Proceedings of Science

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 317; Conference: 9.International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Durham, NC (United States), 17-21 Sep 2018; Journal ID: ISSN 1824-8039

Publisher:: SISSA

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics

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                    Lonardoni, Diego, and Tews, Ingo. Local chiral EFT potentials in nuclei and neutron matter: results and issues.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
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  abstractNote = {In recent years, the combination of advanced quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and local interactions derived from chiral effective field theory (EFT) has been shown to provide a versatile and systematic approach to nuclear systems. Calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral EFT have lead to fascinating results for nuclei and nucleonic matter. On the one hand, ground-state properties of nuclei are well reproduced up to A $≤$ 16, even though these potentials have been fit to nucleon-nucleon scattering and few-body observables only. On the other hand, a reasonable description of neutron-matter properties emerges. While regulator functions applied to two- and three-nucleon forces are a necessary ingredient in these many-body calculations, the use of local regulators leads to a substantial residual regulator and cutoff dependence that increases current theoretical uncertainties. In this contribution, we review local chiral interactions, their applications, and QMC results for nuclei and neutron matter. In addition, we address regulator issues for such potentials and present a possible path forward.},

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