Abstract
We present lattice results for the ground state energies of tritium, helium-3, helium-4, lithium-6, and carbon-12 nuclei. Our analysis includes isospin breaking, Coulomb effects, and interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory.
- Received 29 December 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.142501
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Synopsis
Calculations for complex nuclei
Published 19 April 2010
An effective field theory on a lattice is applied successfully to nuclei as large as carbon-.
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