Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

HW Hammer, S König, U Van Kolck - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The nuclear-physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field
theories (EFTs) connected to the standard model through symmetries and lattice simulations …

Status and future of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay: a review

J Engel, J Menéndez - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The nuclear matrix elements that govern the rate of neutrinoless double beta decay must be
accurately calculated if experiments are to reach their full potential. Theorists have been …

Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces

B Hu, W Jiang, T Miyagi, Z Sun, A Ekström, C Forssén… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Heavy atomic nuclei have an excess of neutrons over protons, which leads to the formation
of a neutron skin whose thickness is sensitive to details of the nuclear force. This links …

How well do we know the neutron-matter equation of state at the densities inside neutron stars? A Bayesian approach with correlated uncertainties

C Drischler, RJ Furnstahl, JA Melendez, DR Phillips - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We introduce a new framework for quantifying correlated uncertainties of the infinite-matter
equation of state derived from chiral effective field theory (χ EFT). Bayesian machine …

Accurate bulk properties of nuclei from to from potentials with isobars

WG Jiang, A Ekström, C Forssén, G Hagen, GR Jansen… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We optimize Δ-full nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory. The low-energy
constants of the contact potentials are constrained by two-body scattering phase shifts, and …

Semilocal momentum-space regularized chiral two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order

P Reinert, H Krebs, E Epelbaum - The European Physical Journal A, 2018 - Springer
We introduce new semilocal two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order in the chiral expansion.
We employ a simple regularization approach for the pion exchange contributions which i) …

High-quality two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order of the chiral expansion

DR Entem, R Machleidt, Y Nosyk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present NN potentials through five orders of chiral effective field theory ranging from
leading order (LO) to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N 4 LO). The construction …

Chiral interactions up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order and nuclear saturation

C Drischler, K Hebeler, A Schwenk - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We present an efficient Monte Carlo framework for perturbative calculations of infinite
nuclear matter based on chiral two-, three-, and four-nucleon interactions. The method …

Limiting masses and radii of neutron stars and their implications

C Drischler, S Han, JM Lattimer, M Prakash, S Reddy… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We combine the equation of state of dense matter up to twice nuclear saturation density n
sat obtained using chiral effective field theory (χ EFT) and recent observations of neutron …

The in-medium similarity renormalization group: A novel ab initio method for nuclei

H Hergert, SK Bogner, TD Morris, A Schwenk… - Physics reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive review of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IM-
SRG), a novel ab initio method for nuclei. The IM-SRG employs a continuous unitary …