Tuesday, October 9, 2012

1210.2020 (Sofia Quaglioni et al.)

No-Core Shell Model Analysis of Light Nuclei    [PDF]

Sofia Quaglioni, Petr Navratil, Guillaume Hupin, Joachim Langhammer, Carolina Romero-Redondo, Robert Roth
The fundamental description of both structural properties and reactions of light nuclei in terms of constituent protons and neutrons interacting through nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces is a long-sought goal of nuclear theory. I will briefly present a promising technique, built upon the {\em ab initio} no-core shell model, which emerged recently as a candidate to reach such a goal: the no-core shell model/resonating-group method. This approach, capable of describing simultaneously both bound and scattering states in light nuclei, complements a microscopic cluster technique with the use of two-nucleon realistic interactions, and a microscopic and consistent description of the nucleon clusters. I will discuss applications to light nuclei binary scattering processes and fusion reactions that power stars and Earth based fusion facilities, such as the deuterium-$^3$He fusion, and outline the progress toward the inclusion of the three-nucleon force into the formalism and the treatment of three-body clusters.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2020

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