Effective field theory for lattice nuclei. Barnea, N., Contessi, L., Gazit, D., Pederiva, F., & Van Kolck, U. Physical Review Letters, 2015.
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We show how nuclear effective field theory (EFT) and ab initio nuclear-structure methods can turn input from lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) into predictions for the properties of nuclei. We argue that pionless EFT is the appropriate theory to describe the light nuclei obtained in LQCD simulations carried out at pion masses heavier than the physical pion mass. We solve the EFT using the effective-interaction hyperspherical harmonics and auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Fitting the three leading-order EFT parameters to the deuteron, dineutron, and triton LQCD energies at m$\pi$≈800MeV, we reproduce the corresponding alpha-particle binding and predict the binding energies of mass-5 and mass-6 ground states.
@article{Barnea2015,
abstract = {We show how nuclear effective field theory (EFT) and ab initio nuclear-structure methods can turn input from lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) into predictions for the properties of nuclei. We argue that pionless EFT is the appropriate theory to describe the light nuclei obtained in LQCD simulations carried out at pion masses heavier than the physical pion mass. We solve the EFT using the effective-interaction hyperspherical harmonics and auxiliary-field diffusion Monte Carlo methods. Fitting the three leading-order EFT parameters to the deuteron, dineutron, and triton LQCD energies at m$\pi$≈800MeV, we reproduce the corresponding alpha-particle binding and predict the binding energies of mass-5 and mass-6 ground states.},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
arxivId = {1311.4966},
author = {Barnea, N. and Contessi, L. and Gazit, D. and Pederiva, F. and {Van Kolck}, U.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.052501},
eprint = {1311.4966},
issn = {10797114},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = {5},
title = {{Effective field theory for lattice nuclei}},
volume = {114},
year = {2015}
}

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