Ab initio no-core shell model calculations for light nuclei

TL;DR

This paper reviews the ab initio no-core shell model applied to light nuclei, highlighting recent results with chiral interactions, astrophysical reaction cross sections, and extensions to nuclear reaction descriptions.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent advances in the ab initio no-core shell model, including new results with chiral interactions and reaction modeling techniques.

Findings

Successful calculations of light nuclei properties

Accurate cross section predictions for astrophysical reactions

Extension of the model to nuclear reaction descriptions

Abstract

An overview of the ab initio no-core shell model is presented. Recent results for light nuclei obtained with the chiral two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions are highlighted. Cross section calculations of capture reactions important for astrophysics are discussed. The extension of the ab initio no-core shell model to the description of nuclear reactions by the resonating group method technique is outlined.