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Title: Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions

Abstract

Here, we present quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions in selected nuclei for A≤16. We employ local chiral interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order. We find good agreement at low momentum with the single-nucleon momentum distributions derived for phenomenological potentials. The same agreement is found for the integrated two-nucleon momentum distributions at low relative momentum q and low center-of-mass momentum Q. We provide results for the two-nucleon momentum distributions as a function of both q and Q. The large ratio of pn to pp pairs around q = 2 fm–1 for back-to-back (Q = 0) pairs is confirmed up to 16O, and results are compatible with those extracted from available experimental data.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Huzhou Univ., Huzhou (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); China Scholarship Council
OSTI Identifier:
1467218
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1461007; OSTI ID: 1598805
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-22852
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; PRVCAN
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231; U1732138; 11505056; 11605054; 11747312; 201508330016; SC0013617
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Nuclear forces; Nuclear many-body theory; Nucleon distribution

Citation Formats

Lonardoni, Diego, Gandolfi, Stefano, Wang, Xiaobao B., and Carlson, Joseph Allen. Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.98.014322.
Lonardoni, Diego, Gandolfi, Stefano, Wang, Xiaobao B., & Carlson, Joseph Allen. Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.014322
Lonardoni, Diego, Gandolfi, Stefano, Wang, Xiaobao B., and Carlson, Joseph Allen. Thu . "Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.014322. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1467218.
@article{osti_1467218,
title = {Single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions for local chiral interactions},
author = {Lonardoni, Diego and Gandolfi, Stefano and Wang, Xiaobao B. and Carlson, Joseph Allen},
abstractNote = {Here, we present quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the single- and two-nucleon momentum distributions in selected nuclei for A≤16. We employ local chiral interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order. We find good agreement at low momentum with the single-nucleon momentum distributions derived for phenomenological potentials. The same agreement is found for the integrated two-nucleon momentum distributions at low relative momentum q and low center-of-mass momentum Q. We provide results for the two-nucleon momentum distributions as a function of both q and Q. The large ratio of pn to pp pairs around q = 2 fm–1 for back-to-back (Q = 0) pairs is confirmed up to 16O, and results are compatible with those extracted from available experimental data.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.98.014322},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 1,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Table I Table I: VMC charge radii (in fm) for the optimized wave function of Eq. (2) and different N2LO local chiral potentials. Experimental results are also shown.

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