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Title: Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction

Abstract

With the goal of developing predictive ab initio capability for light and medium-mass nuclei, two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory are optimized simultaneously to low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering data, as well as binding energies and radii of few-nucleon systems and selected isotopes of carbon and oxygen. Coupled-cluster calculations based on this interaction, named NNLOsat, yield accurate binding energies and radii of nuclei up to 40Ca, and are consistent with the empirical saturation point of symmetric nuclear matter. In addition, the low-lying collective Jπ=3- states in 16O and 40Ca are described accurately, while spectra for selected p- and sd-shell nuclei are in reasonable agreement with experiment.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, 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)
  4. Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
  5. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1265774
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1179717
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; SC0008499; SC0008511
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 91; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Ekstrom, Jan A., Jansen, G. R., Wendt, Kyle A., Hagen, Gaute, Papenbrock, Thomas F., Carlsson, Boris, Forssen, Christian, Hjorth-Jensen, M., Navratil, Petr, and Nazarewicz, Witold. Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.91.051301.
Ekstrom, Jan A., Jansen, G. R., Wendt, Kyle A., Hagen, Gaute, Papenbrock, Thomas F., Carlsson, Boris, Forssen, Christian, Hjorth-Jensen, M., Navratil, Petr, & Nazarewicz, Witold. Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.051301
Ekstrom, Jan A., Jansen, G. R., Wendt, Kyle A., Hagen, Gaute, Papenbrock, Thomas F., Carlsson, Boris, Forssen, Christian, Hjorth-Jensen, M., Navratil, Petr, and Nazarewicz, Witold. Fri . "Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.051301. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265774.
@article{osti_1265774,
title = {Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction},
author = {Ekstrom, Jan A. and Jansen, G. R. and Wendt, Kyle A. and Hagen, Gaute and Papenbrock, Thomas F. and Carlsson, Boris and Forssen, Christian and Hjorth-Jensen, M. and Navratil, Petr and Nazarewicz, Witold},
abstractNote = {With the goal of developing predictive ab initio capability for light and medium-mass nuclei, two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory are optimized simultaneously to low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering data, as well as binding energies and radii of few-nucleon systems and selected isotopes of carbon and oxygen. Coupled-cluster calculations based on this interaction, named NNLOsat, yield accurate binding energies and radii of nuclei up to 40Ca, and are consistent with the empirical saturation point of symmetric nuclear matter. In addition, the low-lying collective Jπ=3- states in 16O and 40Ca are described accurately, while spectra for selected p- and sd-shell nuclei are in reasonable agreement with experiment.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.91.051301},
journal = {Physical Review. C},
number = 5,
volume = 91,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (Color online) Ground-state energy (negative of binding energy) per nucleon (top), and residuals (differences between computed and experimental values) of charge radii (bottom) for selected nuclei computed with chiral interactions. In most cases, theory predicts too small radii and too large binding energies. References: a [40, 41], bmore » [24], c [23], d [22], e [42], f [43], g [44], h [45], i [46]. The red diamonds are NNLOsat results obtained in this work.« less

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