Published July 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

The Tjon band in Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory

  • 1. Universitaet Bonn, Helmholtz-Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Bonn (Germany)
  • 2. Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Department of Physics, Karaman (Turkey)
  • 3. Institut fuer Kernphysik, and Juelich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Juelich (Germany)
  • 4. North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Raleigh, NC (United States)
  • 5. Michigan State University, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  • 6. Forschungszentrum Juelich, JARA - High Performance Computing, Juelich (Germany)

Description

We explore the lattice spacing dependence in Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory for few-body systems up to next-to-next-to leading order in chiral effective field theory including all isospin breaking and electromagnetic effects, the complete two-pion-exchange potential, and the three-nucleon forces. We calculate phase shifts in the neutron-proton system and proton-proton systems as well as the scattering length in the neutron-neutron system. We then perform a full next-to-next-to-leading order calculation with two-nucleon and three-nucleon forces for the triton and helium-4, and analyse their binding energy correlation. We show how the Tjon band is reached by decreasing the lattice spacing, and confirm the continuum observation that a four-body force is not necessary to describe light nuclei. (orig.)

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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12553-y

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. A
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1-15
ISSN
1434-6001