What is ab initio in nuclear theory?

A Ekström, C Forssén, G Hagen, GR Jansen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
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Three-nucleon forces: Implementation and applications to atomic nuclei and dense matter

K Hebeler - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nuclear structure theory have significantly enlarged the accessible part
of the nuclear landscape via ab initio many-body calculations. These developments open …

Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction

A Ekström, GR Jansen, KA Wendt, G Hagen… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
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 …

Structure and rotations of the Hoyle state

E Epelbaum, H Krebs, TA Lähde, D Lee, UG Meißner - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
The excited state of the C 12 nucleus known as the “Hoyle state” constitutes one of the most
interesting, difficult, and timely challenges in nuclear physics, as it plays a key role in the …

Ab Initio Calculation of the Hoyle State

E Epelbaum, H Krebs, D Lee, UG Meißner - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
The Hoyle state plays a crucial role in the helium burning of stars heavier than our Sun and
in the production of carbon and other elements necessary for life. This excited state of the …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio path to heavy nuclei

S Binder, J Langhammer, A Calci, R Roth - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
We present the first ab initio calculations of nuclear ground states up into the domain of
heavy nuclei, spanning the range from 16 O to 132 Sn, based on two-plus three-nucleon …

Ab initio alpha–alpha scattering

S Elhatisari, D Lee, G Rupak, E Epelbaum, H Krebs… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Processes such as the scattering of alpha particles (4He), the triple-alpha reaction, and
alpha capture play a major role in stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, alpha capture on …

Signatures of three-nucleon interactions in few-nucleon systems

N Kalantar-Nayestanaki, E Epelbaum… - Reports on Progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experimental results in three-body systems have unambiguously shown that
calculations based only on nucleon–nucleon forces fail to accurately describe many …

Ab Initio Calculation of the Spectrum and Structure of

E Epelbaum, H Krebs, TA Lähde, D Lee, UG Meißner… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We present ab initio lattice calculations of the low-energy even-parity states of O 16 using
chiral nuclear effective field theory. We find good agreement with the empirical energy …

[HTML][HTML] Lattice effective field theory for medium-mass nuclei

TA Lähde, E Epelbaum, H Krebs, D Lee, UG Meißner… - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract We extend Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory (NLEFT) to medium-mass nuclei,
and present results for the ground states of alpha nuclei from 4 He to 28 Si, calculated up to …