Nuclear Physics without High-Momentum Potentials: Constructing the Nuclear Effective Interaction Directly from Scattering Observables
arXiv:1902.03543 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134880
Abstract
The traditional approach to nuclear physics encodes phase shift information in a nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential, producing a nucleon-level interaction that captures the sub-GeV consequences of QCD. A further reduction to the nuclear scale is needed to produce an effective interaction for soft Hilbert spaces, such as those employed in the shell model. Here we describe an alternative construction of this effective interaction, from QCD directly to the nuclear scale, that is direct and precise. This eliminates the need for constructing and renormalizing the high-momentum NN potential. Instead, continuum phase shifts and mixing angles are used directly at the nuclear scale. The method exploits the analytic continuity in energy of HOBET (Harmonic-Oscillator-Based Effective Theory) to connect bound states to continuum solutions at specific energies. The procedure is systematic, cutoff independent, and convergent, yielding keV accuracy at NNLO or NLO, depending on the channel. Lepage plots are provided.
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