A new tool in nuclear physics: Nuclear lattice simulations

Abstract

In the last years, chiral effective field theory has been successfully developed for and applied to systems with few nucleons. Here, I present a new approach for ab initio calculations of nuclei that combines these precise and systematic forces with Monte Carlo simulation techniques that allow for exact solutions of the nuclear A-body problem. A short introduction of this method is given and a few assorted results concerning the spectrum and structure of 12C and 16O are presented. The framework further allows one to study the properties of nuclei in worlds that have fundamental parameters different from the ones in Nature. This allows for a physics test of the anthropic principle by addressing the question how strongly the generation of the life-relevant elements depends on the light quark masses and the electromagnetic fine structure constant.

arXiv commentcommissioned article for Nuclear Physics News

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