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Nuclear structure study with two- and three-nucleon contact interactions derived within low-energy EFT

Nuclear Theory 2025-11-25 v1

Abstract

We present the results of the application of a nuclear potential consisting of two- and three-nucleon contact interactions in nuclear structure investigations. The nuclear Hamiltonian has been derived for a very low-energy regime within the framework of the effective field theory, its low-energy constants have been fitted to a few low-energy nucleon-nucleon experimental observables and the deuteron and 3H binding energies. Our goal is to validate the ability of this Hamiltonian to reproduce some important features of open-shell nuclei, and to this end we derive effective shell-model Hamiltonians for nuclei in the p- and sd-shell mass regions. The results of shell-model calculations with these effective Hamiltonians are then compared with experiment, and also with those obtained with a nuclear Hamiltonian derived within chiral perturbation theory, that includes also terms with one- and two-pion exchanges.

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@article{arxiv.2511.18129,
  title  = {Nuclear structure study with two- and three-nucleon contact interactions derived within low-energy EFT},
  author = {Songlin Lyu and Francesco Amodio and Giovanni De Gregorio and Nunzio Itaco and Luigi Coraggio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18129},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 14th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics "Cutting-Edge Developments in Nuclear Structure Physics"

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