Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction
Journal article, 2015

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 Ca-40, and are consistent with the empirical saturation point of symmetric nuclear matter. In addition, the low-lying collective J(pi) = 3(-) states in O-16 and 40Ca are described accurately, while spectra for selected p- and sd-shell nuclei are in reasonable agreement with experiment.

Author

A. Ekstrom

G. R. Jansen

K. A. Wendt

G. Hagen

T. Papenbrock

Boris Karlsson

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

Christian Forssen

Chalmers, Fundamental Physics

M. Hjorth-Jensen

P. Navratil

W. Nazarewicz

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)

Vol. 91 5 051301

Ab initio approach to nuclear structure and reactions (++) (ANSR)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/240603), 2009-12-01 -- 2014-11-30.

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Physical Sciences

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.91.051301

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