Recent advances in chiral EFT based nuclear forces and their applications

Feb 20, 2024
90 pages
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  • Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 137 (2024) 104117
  • Published: May 6, 2024
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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
During the past two decades, chiral effective field theory has evolved into a powerful tool to derive nuclear forces from first principles. Nearly all two-nucleon interactions have been worked out up to sixth order of chiral perturbation theory, while, with few exceptions, three-nucleon forces, which play a subtle, but crucial role in microscopic nuclear structure calculations, have been derived up to fifth order. We review the current status of these forces as well as their applications in nuclear many-body systems. While the ab initio description of light nuclei is generally very successful, we point out and analyze problems encountered with medium-mass nuclei. We also survey the construction of equations of state for symmetric nuclear matter and neutron-rich matter based on chiral forces. A focal point is the symmetry energy and its impact on neutron skins and systems of astrophysical relevance. The physics of neutron-rich systems, from nuclei to compact stars, is essentially determined by the density dependence of the symmetry energy. We review the status of predictions in comparison with latest empirical constraints, with particular attention to those extracted from parity-violating electron scattering.
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  • 90 pages. Preprint submitted to PPNP
  • Chiral effective field theory
  • Nucleon–Nucleon potentials
  • Three-nucleon forces
  • calculations of nuclei
  • Nuclear-matter theory
  • Neutron-rich systems
  • effective field theory: chiral
  • energy: symmetry
  • perturbation theory: chiral
  • star: compact