Novel chiral Hamiltonian and observables in light and medium-mass nuclei

Abstract

A novel parameterisation of a Hamiltonian based on chiral effective field theory is introduced. Specifically, three-nucleon operators at next-to-next-to-leading order are combined with an existing (and successful) two-body interaction containing terms up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. The resulting potential is labelled $NN$+$3N\text{(lnl)}$. The objective of the present work is to investigate the performance of this new Hamiltonian across light and medium-mass nuclei. Binding energies, nuclear radii and excitation spectra are computed using no-core shell model and self-consistent Green's function approaches. Calculations with $NN$+$3N\text{(lnl)}$ are compared to two other representative Hamiltonians currently in use, namely NNLO${}_{\text{sat}}$ and the older $NN$+$3N(400)$. Overall, the performance of the novel interaction is very encouraging. In light nuclei, total energies are generally in good agreement with experimental data. Known spectra are also well reproduced with a few notable exceptions. The good description of ground-state energies carries on to heavier nuclei, all the way from oxygen to nickel isotopes. Except for those involving excitation processes across the $N=20$ gap, which is overestimated by the new interaction, spectra are of very good quality, in general superior to those obtained with NNLO${}_{\text{sat}}$. Although largely improving on $NN$+$3N(400)$ results, charge radii calculated with $NN$+$3N\text{(lnl)}$ still underestimate experimental values, as opposed to the ones computed with NNLO${}_{\text{sat}}$ that successfully reproduce available data on nickel. On the whole, the new two- plus three-nucleon Hamiltonian introduced in the present work represents a promising alternative to existing nuclear interactions.

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