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Title: Optimized Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Univ. of Oslo (Norway). Dept. of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.
  2. Univ. of Oslo (Norway). Dept. of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications
  3. Chalmers Univ. of Technology Göteborg (Sweden). Dept. of Fundamental Physics
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Physics Division
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  6. Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID (United States). Dept. of Physics
  7. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Univ. of Warsaw (Poland). Faculty of Physics
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Mathematics and Computer Science Division

We optimize the nucleon-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). The resulting new chiral force $$\textbf{NNLO}_{opt}$$ yields $χ^2 ≈ 1$ per degree of freedom for laboratory energies below approximately 125 MeV. In the $A = 3, 4$ nucleon systems, the contributions of three-nucleon forces are smaller than for previous parametrizations of chiral interactions. We use $$\textbf{NNLO}_{opt}$$ to study properties of key nuclei and neutron matter, and we demonstrate that many aspects of nuclear structure can be understood in terms of this nucleon-nucleon interaction, without explicitly invoking three-nucleon forces.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; FG02-03ER41270; FG02-96ER40963; SC0008499
OSTI ID:
1565067
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1102214
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 19; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 240 works
Citation information provided by
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