1205.5686 (Pieter Maris et al.)

Structure of A = 7 - 8 nuclei with two- plus three-nucleon interactions
from chiral effective field theory    [PDF]

Pieter Maris, James P. Vary, Petr Navratil

We solve the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) in the complete Nmax = 8 basis for A = 7 and A = 8 nuclei with two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory (EFT). We find that including the chiral EFT three-nucleon interaction in the Hamiltonian improves overall good agreement with experimental binding energies, excitation spectra, transitions and electromagnetic moments. We predict states that exhibit sensitivity to including the chiral EFT three-nucleon interaction but are not yet known experimentally.

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