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Towards nuclear energy density functionals from first principles

Nuclear Theory 2025-04-15 v1

Abstract

We discuss the GUDE functionals which consist of pion exchanges derived from chiral effective field theory and a Skyrme-like part. Certain pion terms lead to significant improvements in the description of ground-state energies, indicating they might be useful ingredients for true ab initio energy density functionals. In addition, we present estimates of the statistical parameter uncertainties of the GUDE functionals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.10164,
  title  = {Towards nuclear energy density functionals from first principles},
  author = {Lars Zurek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10164},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures, proceedings for the 57th Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, "Extremes of the Nuclear Landscape", Zakopane, Poland, 25 August-1 September, 2024

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