Over the last decade, new developments in Similarity Renormalization Group techniques
and nuclear many-body methods have dramatically increased the capabilities of ab initio …

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proved valuable to study the structure and reactions of
light nuclei and nucleonic matter starting from realistic nuclear interactions and currents …

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 …

We present improved nucleon-nucleon potentials derived in chiral effective field theory up to
next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. We argue that the nonlocal momentum-space …

This review examines the tendency of light nuclei to exhibit clustering, where correlations
between nucleons result in the formation of precipitates, typically α particles. The …

We present a nucleon-nucleon potential at fifth order in chiral effective field theory. We find a
substantial improvement in the description of nucleon-nucleon phase shifts as compared to …

A long-standing crucial question with atomic nuclei is whether or not α clustering occurs
there. An α particle (helium-4 nucleus) comprises two protons and two neutrons, and may be …

We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

The description of nuclei starting from the constituent nucleons and the realistic interactions
among them has been a long-standing goal in nuclear physics. In addition to the complex …

Abstract The 7.65 MeV, J π= 0+, second excited state in 12 C is known as the Hoyle-state
after Fred Hoyle. In the 1950s Hoyle proposed the existence of the state in order to account …