[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium today at 14:00
TRIUMF Seminars
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Thu Feb 19 05:00:01 PST 2015
Date/Time: Thu 2015-02-19 at 14:00
Location: Auditorium
Speaker: Bob Wiringa (Argonne National Laboratory)
Title: Nuclei with Quantum Monte Carlo
Abstract: Ab-initio calculations of the structure of light nuclei, starting from "bare" two-nucleon interactions that fit NN scattering data, have become feasible over the last two decades using quantum Monte Carlo methods. Three-nucleon interactions and two-body electroweak current operators are important additional inputs. Present variational and Green's function Monte Carlo methods allow us to study nuclei up to A=12 with unprecedented accuracy. Properties we can evaluate include binding and excitation energies and the relative stability of neighboring nuclei. We can also study fine details like charge-independence-breaking and isospin-mixing, one- and two-nucleon densities in configuration and momentum space, electromagnetic moments and electroweak transitions and response, and nucleon-nucleus scattering. Overall, we have made great progress in understanding how complicated aspects of nuclear structure arise from the pairwise interactions between individual nucleons.
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