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We construct valence-space Hamiltonians for use in shell-model calculations, where the residual two-body interaction is based on symmetry principles and the low-momentum expansion from chiral effective field theory. In addition to the usual…
The non energy-weighted Gamow-Teller(GT) sum rule is satisfied in relativistic models, when all nuclear density-dependent terms, including Pauli blocking terms from nucleon-antinucleon excitations, are taken into account in the RPA…
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