Pion-less effective field theory for atomic nuclei and lattice nuclei
Journal article, 2018
We compute the medium-mass nuclei 16O and 40Ca using pion-less effective field theory (EFT) at next-to-leading order (NLO). The low-energy coefficients of the EFT Hamiltonian are adjusted to experimental data for nuclei with mass numbers A=2 and 3, or alternatively to results from lattice quantum chromodynamics at an unphysical pion mass of 806 MeV. The EFT is implemented through a discrete variable representation in the harmonic oscillator basis. This approach ensures rapid convergence with respect to the size of the model space and facilitates the computation of medium-mass nuclei. At NLO the nuclei 16O and 40Ca are bound with respect to decay into alpha particles. Binding energies per nucleon are 9–10 MeV and 21–40 MeV at pion masses of 140 and 806 MeV, respectively.
Author
A. Bansal
University of Tennessee
S. Binder
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee
Andreas Ekström
Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
G. Hagen
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee
G. R. Jansen
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
T. Papenbrock
University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Physical Review C
24699985 (ISSN) 24699993 (eISSN)
Vol. 98 5 054301Optimized nuclear forces from chiral effective field theory with statistical and systematical uncertainties
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2015-00225), 2016-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.
Subject Categories
Subatomic Physics
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.98.054301