Family of Chiral Two- plus Three-Nucleon Interactions for Accurate Nuclear Structure Studies
Abstract
We present a family of nucleon-nucleon (NN) plus three-nucleon (3N) interactions up to N3LO in the chiral expansion that provides an accurate ab initio description of ground-state energies and charge radii up to the medium-mass regime with quantified theory uncertainties. Starting from the NN interactions proposed by Entem, Machleidt and Nosyk, we construct 3N interactions with consistent chiral order, non-local regulator, and cutoff value and explore the dependence of nuclear observables over a range of mass numbers on the 3N low-energy constants. By fixing these constants using the 3-H and 16-O ground-state energies, we obtain interactions that robustly reproduce experimental energies and radii for large range from p-shell nuclei to the nickel isotopic chain and resolve many of the deficiencies of previous interactions. Based on the order-by-order convergence and the cutoff dependence of nuclear observables, we assess the uncertainties due the interaction, which yield a significant contribution to the total theory uncertainty.
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@article{arxiv.1911.04955,
title = {Family of Chiral Two- plus Three-Nucleon Interactions for Accurate Nuclear Structure Studies},
author = {Thomas Hüther and Klaus Vobig and Kai Hebeler and Ruprecht Machleidt and Robert Roth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04955},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table