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nucl-th2026

Short-distance production of three particles with large scattering length

Timothy G. Backert, Sebastian Dietz, Hans-Werner Hammer +2

The short-distance production of multi-particle states in high-energy nuclear reactions provides a unique way to study the low-energy properties of few-body systems. In particular,…

nucl-th2025

Nuclear Data Adjustment for Nonlinear Applications in the OECD/NEA WPNCS SG14 Benchmark -- A Bayesian Inverse UQ-based Approach for Data Assimilation

Christopher Brady, Xu Wu

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Party on Nuclear Criticality Safety (WPNCS) proposed a benchmark exercise to assess the performance of curr…

nucl-th2024★ 10 cited

Towards scalable bound-to-resonance extrapolations for few- and many-body systems

Nuwan Yapa, Sebastian König, Kévin Fossez

In open quantum many-body systems, the theoretical description of resonant states of many particles strongly coupled to the continuum can be challenging. Such states are commonplac…

nucl-th2024★ 1 cited

Two-Body Triton Photodisintegration and Wigner-SU(4) Symmetry

Xincheng Lin, Jared Vanasse

We calculate the two-body triton photodisintegration cross section as a function of photon energy to next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) in pionless effective field theory (EFT($π…

nucl-th2024★ 12 cited

Opportunities and open questions in modern decay

Leendert Hayen

For well over half a century, precision studies of neutron and nuclear decays have been at the forefront of searches for exotic electroweak physics. Recent advances in nuclear…

nucl-th2024★ 22 cited

Simulations of stochastic fluid dynamics near a critical point in the phase diagram

Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Josh Ott, Thomas Schaefer +1

We present simulations of stochastic fluid dynamics in the vicinity of a critical endpoint belonging to the universality class of the Ising model. This study is motivated by the ch…

nucl-th2023★ 46 cited

Eigenvector Continuation and Projection-Based Emulators

Thomas Duguet, Andreas Ekström, Richard J. Furnstahl +2

Eigenvector continuation is a computational method for parametric eigenvalue problems that uses subspace projection with a basis derived from eigenvector snapshots from different p…

nucl-th2023★ 7 cited

Complex scaling in finite volume

Hang Yu, Nuwan Yapa, Sebastian König

Quantum resonances, i.e., metastable states with a finite lifetime, play an important role in nuclear physics and other domains. Describing this phenomenon theoretically is general…

nucl-th2023★ 24 cited

Eigenvector continuation for emulating and extrapolating two-body resonances

Nuwan Yapa, Kévin Fossez, Sebastian König

The study of open quantum systems (OQSs), i.e., systems interacting with an environment, impacts our understanding of exotic nuclei in low-energy nuclear physics, hadrons, cold-ato…

nucl-th2023★ 11 cited

Pre-Equilibrium Evolution of Conserved Charges with ICCING Initial Conditions

Patrick Carzon, Mauricio Martinez, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler +3

Heavy-ion collisions can be well described through relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, but questions still remain when hydrodynamics is applicable because the initial state may beg…

nucl-th2022★ 8 cited

Charged-particle bound states in periodic boxes

Hang Yu, Sebastian König, Dean Lee

We consider the binding energy of a two-body system with a repulsive Coulomb interaction in a finite periodic volume. We define the finite-volume Coulomb potential as the usual Cou…

nucl-th2022★ 6 cited

Perspectives on few-body cluster structures in exotic nuclei

D. Bazin, K. Becker, F. Bonaiti +16

It is a fascinating phenomenon in nuclear physics that states with a pronounced few-body structure can emerge from the complex dynamics of many nucleons. Such halo or cluster state…

nucl-th2022★ 6 cited

Efficient few-body calculations in finite volume

S. König

Simulating quantum systems in a finite volume is a powerful theoretical tool to extract information about them. Real-world properties of the system are encoded in how its discrete…

nucl-th2022★ 23 cited

Ab initio calculation of the decay spectrum of He

Garrett B. King, Alessandro Baroni, Vincenzo Cirigliano +5

We calculate the spectrum in the decay of He using Quantum Monte Carlo methods with nuclear interactions derived from chiral Effective Field Theory and consistent weak vect…

nucl-th2022★ 9 cited

Pre-hydrodynamic evolution and its impact on quark-gluon plasma signatures

Dananjaya Liyanage, Derek Everett, Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay +1

State-of-the-art hydrodynamic models of heavy-ion collisions have considerable theoretical model uncertainties in the description of the very early pre-hydrodynamic stage. We add a…

nucl-th2022★ 19 cited

Dynamics of non-Gaussian fluctuations in model A

Thomas Schaefer, Vladimir Skokov

Motivated by the experimental search for the QCD critical point we perform simulations of a stochastic field theory with purely relaxational dynamics (model A). We verify the expec…

nucl-th2022★ 54 cited

Pion-induced radiative corrections to neutron beta-decay

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Jordy de Vries, Leendert Hayen +2

We compute the electromagnetic corrections to neutron beta decay using a low-energy hadronic effective field theory. We identify and compute new radiative corrections arising from…

nucl-th2022★ 46 cited

Nuclear Forces for Precision Nuclear Physics -- a collection of perspectives

Ingo Tews, Zohreh Davoudi, Andreas Ekström +42

This is a collection of perspective pieces contributed by the participants of the Institute of Nuclear Theory's Program on Nuclear Physics for Precision Nuclear Physics which was h…

nucl-th2022★ 15 cited

Volume extrapolation via eigenvector continuation

Nuwan Yapa, Sebastian König

We develop an extension of eigenvector continuation (EC) that makes it possible to extrapolate simulations of quantum systems in finite periodic boxes across large ranges of box si…

nucl-th2021★ 5 cited

Octet and decuplet baryon -terms and mass decompositions

P. M. Copeland, Chueng-Ryong Ji, W. Melnitchouk

We present a comprehensive analysis of the SU(3) octet and decuplet baryon masses and -terms using high-precision lattice QCD data and chiral SU(3) effective theory with finite…

nucl-th2021★ 17 cited

Constructing chiral effective field theory around unnatural leading-order interactions

Rui Peng, Songlin Lyu, Sebastian König +1

A momentum-dependent formulation based on a stationary spin-0 and isospin-1 dibaryon field is proposed to improve convergence of chiral effective field theory in the $\cs{1}{0}$ ch…

nucl-th2021★ 6 cited

From Nuclear to Unnuclear Physics

Thomas Schaefer, Gordon Baym

We provide a brief commentary on recent work by Hammer and Son on the scaling behavior of nuclear reactions involving the emission of several loosely bound neutrons. In this work t…

nucl-th2021★ 18 cited

Three-body resonances in pionless effective field theory

Sebastian Dietz, Hans-Werner Hammer, Sebastian König +1

We investigate the appearance of resonances in three-body systems using pionless effective field theory at leading order. The Faddeev equation is analytically continued to the unph…

nucl-th2021★ 7 cited

The BEST framework for the search for the QCD critical point and the chiral magnetic effect

Xin An, Marcus Bluhm, Lipei Du +40

The Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Collaboration was formed with the goal of providing a theoretical framework for analyzing data from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the rel…