Electromagnetic structure of light nuclei

Abstract

The present understanding of nuclear electromagnetic properties including electromagnetic moments, form factors and transitions in nuclei with A $\le$ 10 is reviewed. Emphasis is on calculations based on nuclear Hamiltonians that include two- and three-nucleon realistic potentials, along with one- and two-body electromagnetic currents derived from a chiral effective field theory with pions and nucleons.

Invited talk at the 21st International Conference on Few-body Problems in Physics, Chicago, IL, USA, May 18-22, 2015. 9 pages

References in corpus (10)

• Chiral effective field theory and nuclear forces
• Local three-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory
• Three-Nucleon Low-Energy Constants from the Consistency of Interactions and Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory
• Electromagnetic Currents and Magnetic Moments in $\chi$EFT
• Two-pion exchange electromagnetic current in chiral effective field theory using the method of unitary transformation
• Electromagnetic two-body currents of one- and two-pion range
• Neutral weak current two-body contributions in inclusive scattering from ${}^{12}$C
• Pair counting, pion-exchange forces, and the structure of light nuclei
• Chiral effective theory predictions for deuteron form factor ratios at low Q^2
• Effective field theory approach for the M1 properties of A=2 and 3 nuclei