TY - JOUR
T1 - Ground-state properties of 4He and 16O extrapolated from lattice QCD with pionless EFT
AU - Contessi, L.
AU - Lovato, A.
AU - Pederiva, F.
AU - Roggero, A.
AU - Kirscher, J.
AU - van Kolck, U.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank N. Barnea, D. Gazit, G. Orlandini, and W. Leidemann for useful discussions about the subject of this paper. This research was conducted in the scope of the Laboratoire international associé (LIA) COLL-AGAIN and supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under contracts DE-AC02-06CH11357 (A.L.) and DE-FG02-04ER41338 (U.v.K.), and by the European Union Research and Innovation program Horizon 2020 under grant No. 654002 (U.v.K.). The work of A.R. was supported by NSF Grant No. AST-1333607. J.K. acknowledges support by the NSF Grant No. PHY15-15738. Under an award of computer time provided by the INCITE program, this research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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PY - 2017/9/10
Y1 - 2017/9/10
N2 - We extend the prediction range of Pionless Effective Field Theory with an analysis of the ground state of 16O in leading order. To renormalize the theory, we use as input both experimental data and lattice QCD predictions of nuclear observables, which probe the sensitivity of nuclei to increased quark masses. The nuclear many-body Schrödinger equation is solved with the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo method. For the first time in a nuclear quantum Monte Carlo calculation, a linear optimization procedure, which allows us to devise an accurate trial wave function with a large number of variational parameters, is adopted. The method yields a binding energy of 4He which is in good agreement with experiment at physical pion mass and with lattice calculations at larger pion masses. At leading order we do not find any evidence of a 16O state which is stable against breakup into four 4He, although higher-order terms could bind 16O.
AB - We extend the prediction range of Pionless Effective Field Theory with an analysis of the ground state of 16O in leading order. To renormalize the theory, we use as input both experimental data and lattice QCD predictions of nuclear observables, which probe the sensitivity of nuclei to increased quark masses. The nuclear many-body Schrödinger equation is solved with the Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo method. For the first time in a nuclear quantum Monte Carlo calculation, a linear optimization procedure, which allows us to devise an accurate trial wave function with a large number of variational parameters, is adopted. The method yields a binding energy of 4He which is in good agreement with experiment at physical pion mass and with lattice calculations at larger pion masses. At leading order we do not find any evidence of a 16O state which is stable against breakup into four 4He, although higher-order terms could bind 16O.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.048
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.048
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026828107
VL - 772
SP - 839
EP - 848
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
ER -