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nucl-th2017★ 8 cited

Small Bits of Cold Dense Matter

Stefano Gandolfi, Joseph Carlson, Alessandro Roggero +2

The behavior of QCD at high baryon density and low temperature is crucial to understanding the properties of neutron stars and gravitational waves emitted during their mergers. In…

nucl-th2017★ 14 cited

Production of light hypernuclei with light-ion beams and targets

Y. L. Sun, A. S. Botvina, A. Obertelli +2

Ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies have been shown recently to be a promising technique for the production of hypernuclei. In this article, we further investigate the prod…

nucl-th2017★ 39 cited

Hypernuclear No-Core Shell Model

Roland Wirth, Daniel Gazda, Petr Navrátil +1

We extend the No-Core Shell Model (NCSM) methodology to incorporate strangeness degrees of freedom and apply it to single- hypernuclei. After discussing the transformation of th…

nucl-th2017★ 9 cited

Phenomenological Equation of State of Strongly Interacting Matter with First-Order Phase Transitions and Critical Points

Stefan Typel, David Blaschke

An extension of the relativistic density functional approach to the equation of state for strongly interacting matter is suggested which generalizes a recently developed modified e…

nucl-th2017★ 22 cited

Energy dependence of non-local potentials

A. E. Lovell, P. -L. Bacq, P. Capel +2

Recently a variety of studies have shown the importance of including non-locality in the description of reactions. The goal of this work is to revisit the phenomenological approach…

nucl-th2017★ 52 cited

Peeling off neutron skins from neutron-rich nuclei: Constraints on the symmetry energy from neutron-removal cross sections

T. Aumann, C. A. Bertulani, F. Schindler +1

An experimentally constrained equation of state of neutron-rich matter is fundamental for the physics of nuclei and the astrophysics of neutron stars, mergers, core-collapse supern…

nucl-th2017★ 4 cited

Thermal dileptons as QCD matter probes at SIS

Florian Seck, Tetyana Galatyuk, Ralf Rapp +1

Electromagnetic radiation is emitted during the whole course of a heavy-ion collision and can escape from the collision zone without further interactions. This makes it an ideal to…

nucl-th2017★ 8 cited

Mixed Phase within the Multi-polytrope Approach to High Mass Twins

David Alvarez-Castillo, David Blaschke, Stefan Typel

We present a multi-polytrope approach to describe high-mass twins fulfilling chiral effective field theory estimations of the neutron star equation state and test it against the ap…

nucl-th2017★ 38 cited

Cluster formation in pre-compound nuclei in the time-dependent framework

Bastian Schuetrumpf, Witold Nazarewicz

Background: Applications of nuclear time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) are often capable of providing quantitative description of heavy ion reactions. However, the st…

nucl-th2017★ 341 cited

Chiral interactions up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order and nuclear saturation

C. Drischler, K. Hebeler, A. Schwenk

We present an efficient Monte Carlo framework for perturbative calculations of infinite nuclear matter based on chiral two-, three-, and four-nucleon interactions. The method enabl…

nucl-th2017★ 51 cited

Light Neutron-Rich Hypernuclei from the Importance-Truncated No-Core Shell Model

Roland Wirth, Robert Roth

We explore the systematics of ground-state and excitation energies in singly-strange hypernuclei throughout the helium and lithium isotopic chains --- from He to He…

nucl-th2017★ 234 cited

Structure of the lightest tin isotopes

T. D. Morris, J. Simonis, S. R. Stroberg +7

We link the structure of nuclei around Sn, the heaviest doubly magic nucleus with equal neutron and proton numbers (), to nucleon-nucleon () and three-nucleon (…

nucl-th2017★ 101 cited

Properties of nuclei up to using local chiral interactions

D. Lonardoni, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi +4

We report accurate quantum Monte Carlo calculations of nuclei up to based on local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions up to next-to-next-to-leading order. We examine…

nucl-th2017★ 12 cited

Proton pairing in neutron stars from chiral effective field theory

Yeunhwan Lim, Jeremy W. Holt

We study the proton pairing gap in beta-equilibrated neutron star matter within the framework of chiral effective field theory. We focus on the role of three-body force…

nucl-th2017★ 9 cited

Analysis of corrections to the eikonal approximation

Chloë Hebborn, Pierre Capel

Various corrections to the eikonal approximations are studied for two- and three-body nuclear collisions with the goal to extend the range of validity of this approximation to beam…

nucl-th2017★ 19 cited

Gamow-Teller and double-beta decays of heavy nuclei within an effective theory

Eduardo Antonio Coello Pérez, Javier Menéndez, Achim Schwenk

We study decays within an effective theory that treats nuclei as a spherical collective core with an even number of neutrons and protons that can couple to an additional neutro…

nucl-th2017★ 47 cited

Analyzing the Fierz Rearrangement Freedom for Local Chiral Two-Nucleon Potentials

L. Huth, I. Tews, J. E. Lynn +1

Chiral effective field theory is a framework to derive systematic nuclear interactions. It is based on the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics and includes long-range pion physics…

nucl-th2017★ 23 cited

Double-folding potentials from chiral effective field theory

V. Durant, P. Capel, L. Huth +2

The determination of nucleus-nucleus potentials is important not only to describe the properties of the colliding system, but also to extract nuclear-structure information and for…

nucl-th2017★ 5 cited

Maris polarization in neutron-rich nuclei

Shubhchintak, C. A. Bertulani, T. Aumann

We present a theoretical study of the Maris polarization effect and its application in quasi-free reactions to assess information on the structure of exotic nuclei. We discuss the…

nucl-th2017★ 46 cited

Weinberg eigenvalues for chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions

J. Hoppe, C. Drischler, R. J. Furnstahl +2

We perform a comprehensive Weinberg eigenvalue analysis of a representative set of modern nucleon-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory. Our set contain…

nucl-th2017★ 16 cited

Assessing the foundation of the Trojan Horse Method

C. A. Bertulani, M. S. Hussein, S. Typel

We discuss the foundation of the Trojan Horse Method (THM) within the Inclusive Non-Elastic Breakup (INEB) theory. We demonstrate that the direct part of the INEB cross section, wh…

nucl-th2017★ 93 cited

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions

J. E. Lynn, I. Tews, J. Carlson +4

Local chiral effective field theory interactions have recently been developed and used in the context of quantum Monte Carlo few- and many-body methods for nuclear physics. In this…

nucl-th2017★ 13 cited

Reconciling Coulomb breakup and neutron radiative capture

Pierre Capel, Yvan Nollet

The Coulomb-breakup method to extract the cross section for neutron radiative capture at astrophysical energies is analyzed in detail. In particular, its sensitivity to the descrip…

nucl-th2017★ 4 cited

On the existence of Rydberg nuclear molecules

C. A. Bertulani, T. Frederico, M. S. Hussein

Present nuclear detection techniques prevents us from determining if the analogue of a Rydberg molecule exists for the nuclear case. But nothing in nature disallows their existence…