From nucleons to nuclei to fusion reactions
Abstract
Nuclei are prototypes of many-body open quantum systems. Complex aggregates of protons and neutrons that interact through forces arising from quantum chromo-dynamics, nuclei exhibit both bound and unbound states, which can be strongly coupled. In this respect, one of the major challenges for computational nuclear physics, is to provide a unified description of structural and reaction properties of nuclei that is based on the fundamental underlying physics: the constituent nucleons and the realistic interactions among them. This requires a combination of innovative theoretical approaches and high-performance computing. In this contribution, we present one of such promising techniques, the ab initio no-core shell model/resonating-group method, and discuss applications to light nuclei scattering and fusion reactions that power stars and Earth-base fusion facilities.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.0268,
title = {From nucleons to nuclei to fusion reactions},
author = {S. Quaglioni and P. Navratil and R. Roth and W. Horiuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0268},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 13 figures, Contribution submitted to the Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Physics 2011 (CCP2011)