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Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction Open
With the goal of developing predictive ab initio capability for light and medium-mass nuclei, two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces from chiral effective field theory are optimized simultaneously to low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering dat…
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Mean field and beyond description of nuclear structure with the Gogny force: a review Open
Nowadays, the Gogny force is a referent in the theoretical description of\nnuclear structure phenomena. Its phenomenological character manifests in a\nsimple analytical form that allows for implementations of techniques both at\nthe mean f…
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Effective field theory description of halo nuclei Open
Nuclear halos emerge as new degrees of freedom near the neutron and proton\ndriplines. They consist of a core and one or a few nucleons which spend most of\ntheir time in the classically-forbidden region outside the range of the\ninteracti…
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High-Precision Nuclear Forces From Chiral EFT: State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Outlook Open
We review a new generation of nuclear forces derived in chiral effective field theory using the recently proposed semilocal regularization method. We outline the conceptual foundations of nuclear chiral effective field theory, discuss all …
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After the End of the World: Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice Open
This essay is an invitation to take up the nature and problematics of hospitality in its ma- teriality. It begins and ends with the Marshall Islands, at the crossroads of two great de- structive forces: nuclear colonialism and the climate …
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Exotic neutron-rich medium-mass nuclei with realistic nuclear forces Open
© 2017 American Physical Society. We present the first application of the newly developed extended Kuo-Krenciglowa (EKK) theory of the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction to shell-model studies of exotic nuclei, including those where con…
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Chiral three-nucleon forces and the evolution of correlations along the oxygen isotopic chain Open
The impact of three-nucleon forces (3NFs) along the oxygen chain is\ninvestigated for the spectral distribution for attachment and removal of a\nnucleon, spectroscopic factors and matter radii. We employ self-consistent\nGreen's function (…
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Few-nucleon and many-nucleon systems with semilocal coordinate-space regularized chiral nucleon-nucleon forces Open
We employ a variety of ab initio methods, including Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations, no-core configuration interaction approach, coupled-cluster theory, and in-medium similarity renormalization group, to perform a comprehensive analysis of th…
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Power Counting of Contact-Range Currents in Effective Field Theory Open
We analyze the power counting of two-body currents in nuclear effective field theories (EFTs). We find that the existence of nonperturbative physics at low energies, which is manifest in the existence of the deuteron and the ^{1}S_{0} NN v…
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Quantum Forces from Dark Matter and Where to Find Them Open
We observe that sub-GeV dark matter (DM) induces Casimir-Polder forces between nucleons that can be accessed by experiments from nuclear to molecular scales. We calculate the nucleon-nucleon potentials arising in the DM effective theory an…
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Skyrmions and Clustering in Light Nuclei Open
One of the outstanding problems in modern nuclear physics is to determine the properties of nuclei from the fundamental theory of the strong force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Skyrmions offer a novel approach to this problem by consideri…
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Local Nucleon-Nucleon and Three-Nucleon Interactions Within Chiral Effective Field Theory Open
To obtain an understanding of the structure and reactions of nuclear systems from first principles has been a long-standing goal of nuclear physics. In this respect, few- and many-body systems provide a unique laboratory for studying nucle…
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Electromagnetic structure of few-nucleon ground states Open
Experimental form factors of the hydrogen and helium isotopes, extracted from\nan up-to-date global analysis of cross sections and polarization observables\nmeasured in elastic electron scattering from these systems, are compared to\npredi…
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Leading three-baryon forces from SU(3) chiral effective field theory Open
Leading three-baryon forces are derived within SU(3) chiral effective field\ntheory. Three classes of irreducible diagrams contribute: three-baryon contact\nterms, one-meson exchange and two-meson exchange diagrams. We provide the\nminimal…
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Resonance and continuum Gamow shell model with realistic nuclear forces Open
Starting from realistic nuclear forces, we have developed a core Gamow shell model which can describe resonance and continuum properties of loosely-bound or unbound nuclear systems. To describe properly resonance and continuum, the Berggre…
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Hyperon-Nuclear Interactions From SU(3) Chiral Effective Field Theory Open
The interaction between hyperons and nucleons has a wide range of\napplications in strangeness nuclear physics and is a topic of continuing great\ninterest. These interactions are not only important for hyperon-nucleon\nscattering but also…
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Precision Determination of Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constants Using Effective Field Theory Open
The pion-nucleon coupling constants determine the strength of the long-range nuclear forces and play a fundamental part in our understanding of nuclear physics. While the charged- and neutral-pion couplings to protons and neutrons are expe…
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Electric dipole moments of atoms and molecules produced by enhanced nuclear Schiff moments Open
We perform calculations of the CP-violating atomic and molecular electric\ndipole moments (EDM) induced by the interaction of the nuclear Schiff moments\nwith electrons. EDM of atoms Eu, Dy, Gd, Ac, Th, Pa, U, Np and Pu are of\nspecial int…
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Progress in Understanding Short-Range Structure in Nuclei: An Experimental Perspective Open
High-energy electron scattering is a clean, precise probe for measurements of hadronic and nuclear structure and plays a key role in understanding the role of high-momentum nucleons (and quarks) in nuclei. Jefferson Lab has dramatically ex…
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Theory of deuteron stripping and pick-up reactions for nuclear structure studies Open
Deuteron stripping and pick-up experiments - (d; p) and (p; d) - have been used for a long time
\nto study the structure of nuclei. Today these experiments are often carried out in inverse kinematics in state-of-the-art radioactive beams f…
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Review of the electric dipole moment of light nuclei Open
In this paper, we summarize the theoretical development on the electric dipole moment (CEDM) of light nuclei. We first describe the nucleon level CP violation and its parametrization. We then present the results of calculations of the EDM …
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Probing Low-Mass Vector Bosons with Parity Nonconservation and Nuclear Anapole Moment Measurements in Atoms and Molecules Open
In the presence of P-violating interactions, the exchange of vector bosons between electrons and nucleons induces parity-nonconserving (PNC) effects in atoms and molecules, while the exchange of vector bosons between nucleons induces anapo…
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Analyzing the Fierz rearrangement freedom for local chiral two-nucleon potentials Open
Chiral effective field theory is a framework to derive systematic nuclear\ninteractions. It is based on the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics and\nincludes long-range pion physics explicitly, while shorter-range physics is\nexpanded in …
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Under the Umbrella: Nuclear Crises, Extended Deterrence, and Public Opinion Open
How robust is public support for extended nuclear deterrence in patron and client states? Recent studies have improved scholarly understanding of US public opinion about nuclear weapon use against non-nuclear adversaries. Yet, there is lim…
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Power counting and Wilsonian renormalization in nuclear effective field theory Open
Effective field theories are the most general tool for the description of low energy phenomena. They are universal and systematic: they can be formulated for any low energy systems we can think of and offer a clear guide on how to calculat…
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Theoretical optical potential derived from nucleon-nucleon chiral potentials Open
Background: Elastic scattering is probably the main event in the interactions\nof nucleons with nuclei. Even if this process has been extensively studied in\nthe last years, a consistent description, i.e. starting from microscopic two-\nan…
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The long and winding road from chiral effective Lagrangians to nuclear structure Open
I review the chiral dynamics of nuclear physics. In the first part, I discuss\nthe new developments in the construction of the forces between two, three and\nfour nucleons which have been partly carried out to fifth order in the chiral\nex…
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Parity- and Time-Reversal-Violating Nuclear Forces Open
Parity-violating and time-reversal conserving (PVTC) and parity-violating and\ntime-reversal-violating (PVTV) forces in nuclei form only a tiny component of\nthe total interaction between nucleons. The study of these tiny forces can\nnever…
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Probing Long-Range Neutrino-Mediated Forces with Atomic and Nuclear Spectroscopy Open
The exchange of a pair of low-mass neutrinos between electrons, protons, and neutrons produces a "long-range" 1/r^{5} potential, which can be sought for in phenomena originating on the atomic and subatomic length scales. We calculate the e…
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Universality of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations: The factorization property of the nuclear wave function, the relative and center-of-mass momentum distributions, and the nuclear contacts Open
The two-nucleon momentum distributions have been calculated for nuclei up to A=40 and various values of the relative and center-of-mass momenta and angle between them. For complex nuclei a parameter-free linked-cluster expansion, based upo…