Nuclear effective field theory: status and perspectives

HW Hammer, S König, U Van Kolck - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The nuclear-physics landscape has been redesigned as a sequence of effective field
theories (EFTs) connected to the standard model through symmetries and lattice simulations …

[HTML][HTML] 50 Years of quantum chromodynamics: Introduction and Review

F Gross, E Klempt, SJ Brodsky, AJ Buras… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of quarks and gluons, whose interactions can be
described by a local SU (3) gauge symmetry with charges called “color quantum numbers” …

High-quality two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order of the chiral expansion

DR Entem, R Machleidt, Y Nosyk - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We present NN potentials through five orders of chiral effective field theory ranging from
leading order (LO) to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N 4 LO). The construction …

Semilocal momentum-space regularized chiral two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order

P Reinert, H Krebs, E Epelbaum - The European Physical Journal A, 2018 - Springer
We introduce new semilocal two-nucleon potentials up to fifth order in the chiral expansion.
We employ a simple regularization approach for the pion exchange contributions which i) …

Nonempirical interactions for the nuclear shell model: an update

SR Stroberg, H Hergert, SK Bogner… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The nuclear shell model has perhaps been the most important conceptual and
computational paradigm for the understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei. While the …

The in-medium similarity renormalization group: A novel ab initio method for nuclei

H Hergert, SK Bogner, TD Morris, A Schwenk… - Physics reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive review of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group (IM-
SRG), a novel ab initio method for nuclei. The IM-SRG employs a continuous unitary …

Roy–Steiner-equation analysis of pion–nucleon scattering

M Hoferichter, JR de Elvira, B Kubis, UG Meißner - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the structure of Roy–Steiner equations for pion–nucleon scattering, the solution
for the partial waves of the t-channel process π π→ N ̄ N, as well as the high-accuracy …

Towards an ab initio covariant density functional theory for nuclear structure

S Shen, H Liang, WH Long, J Meng, P Ring - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon–
nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon–nucleon interactions …

Local chiral potentials with -intermediate states and the structure of light nuclei

M Piarulli, L Girlanda, R Schiavilla, A Kievsky, A Lovato… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We present fully local versions of the minimally nonlocal nucleon-nucleon potentials
constructed in a previous paper [Piarulli, Phys. Rev. C 91, 024003 (2015)] PRVCAN 0556 …

Towards grounding nuclear physics in QCD

C Drischler, W Haxton, K McElvain, E Mereghetti… - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Exascale computing could soon enable a predictive theory of nuclear structure and
reactions rooted in the Standard Model, with quantifiable and systematically improvable …