Tuesday, June 5, 2012

1206.0025 (I. Tews et al.)

Neutron matter at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral
effective field theory
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I. Tews, T. Krueger, K. Hebeler, A. Schwenk
Neutron matter presents a unique system for chiral effective field theory (EFT), because all many-body forces among neutrons are predicted to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO). We present the first complete N3LO calculation of the neutron matter energy. This includes the subleading three-nucleon (3N) forces for the first time and all leading four-nucleon (4N) forces. We find relatively large attractive contributions from N3LO 3N forces. Our results provide constraints for neutron-rich matter in astrophysics with controlled theoretical uncertainties.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0025

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