Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics

A Boehnlein, M Diefenthaler, N Sato, M Schram… - Reviews of modern …, 2022 - APS
Advances in machine learning methods provide tools that have broad applicability in
scientific research. These techniques are being applied across the diversity of nuclear …

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 …

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 …

Multimessenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant

T Dietrich, MW Coughlin, PTH Pang, M Bulla, J Heinzel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Observations of neutron-star mergers with distinct messengers, including gravitational
waves and electromagnetic signals, can be used to study the behavior of matter denser than …

Stringent constraints on neutron-star radii from multimessenger observations and nuclear theory

CD Capano, I Tews, SM Brown, B Margalit, S De… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain.
These properties can be constrained by measurements of the star's size. We obtain stringent …

A Guided Tour of ab initio Nuclear Many-Body Theory

H Hergert - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

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 …

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 …

First observation of 28O

Y Kondo, NL Achouri, HA Falou, L Atar, T Aumann… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Subjecting a physical system to extreme conditions is one of the means often used to obtain
a better understanding and deeper insight into its organization and structure. In the case of …